Endymion

...were very unimpressed by him as a person and a writer. In fact they were savage: one journal completely destroyed his first epic poem, Endymion. "To me, it seems incredible that he managed to get up every day and carry on. But Keats...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Jane Campion, Bright Star, Keats House, Paul Schneider, Bedfordshire, Hamlet, and Romantic poet

...of some of the most exquisite spirits the world ever produced": in other words, gentlemen poets. After he berates Keats for daring in Endymion to "profane and vulgarise" Greek culture, Lockhart (a Scot, by the way), ends with a swipe at...

In this article: John Keats, Tony Harrison, John Gibson Lockhart, Jane Campion, Bright Star, and Hash

...will claim him at 25. Campion depicts all this from Fanny's perspective. Keats' words - from some of his best-known poems, including "Endymion," "Ode to a Nightingale" and the titular, Fanny-inspired "Bright Star" - crop up organically...

In this article: Bright Star, John Keats, Jane Campion, Candy, Abbie Cornish, Charles Brown, Ben Whishaw, and Thomas Brodie Sangster

...tomb of Endymion, the folk of Herakleia say that he retired to Mount Latmos and give him honour, there being a shrine of Endymion on Latmos." Endymion was the son, perhaps with Aethlius or with Zeus himself, of the nymph Calyce . He was born...

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Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 . Beginning famously with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever", Endymion, like many epic poems in English (including John Dryden's translations from Virgil and Alexander...

In this article: Endymion, John Keats, Selene, Pan, Adonis, Venus, Artemis, and Virgil

...boasts to Keats and his wealthier friend, Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider). Fanny picks up a copy of his just-published epic, "Endymion," and is entranced from the first line: "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." Keats seems...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, Charles Armitage Brown, Hollywood, Kerry Fox, Abbie Cornish, and Paul Schneider

...Fanny as a young woman ahead of her time, with a biting wit and an eye for fashion. When she strikes up a conversation with Keats over his "Endymion" -- "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" -- her put-down is worse than any bad review. "I...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Jane Austen, Jane Campion, and Paul Schneider

..."Bright Star"). Keats, who died a year before Shelley, was also an archetypal Romantic hero, an artist dead at 25. He was his own "Endymion," sent prematurely to his eternal rest. As played by the ferrety and wraithlike Whishaw...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, The Portrait of a Lady, Charles Armitage Brown, and Vivienne Westwood

...Bay Area theaters.) The great English poet John Keats once observed, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." This opening line to his epic Endymion is the first piece of his verse that we hear in "Bright Star, "Jane Campion's fine-boned,...

In this article: John Keats, Jane Campion, Bright Star, Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, The Piano, Malaise, and In the Cut

...in that corner of Hampstead where she and her mother and siblings lived. When she strikes up a conversation with Keats over his "Endymion" - "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" - her put-down is worse than any bad review. "I wanted to adore...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Jane Campion, Paul Schneider, and Portrait of a Lady