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He was one of the greatest poets of the English language, a difficult and dense writer of the Romantic period who might have rivaled Shakespeare had he lived past the tragically young age of 25.
And pretty soon he’s coming to a theater near you, enthused Abbie Cornish, who was flush with emotion talking about her upcoming film based on the life of poet John Keats, called Bright Star.
“I’ve read a fair bit of his poetry and, you know, the thing that strikes me is that for someone so young, he can just indulge in moments of great beauty,” she said, echoing the statements of everyone who’s ever read “Ode on a Grecian Urn” or “Ode to a Nightingale,” or any of Keats’ great works. “Things that are quite sensory, and emotive, and colorful, and textured, and romantic. You get affected in reading his words and kind of flush. They’re timeless.”
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