Transcript: Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
09-18-2009
Jane Campion's Ode To Keats' Romantic Love

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 20:00-21:00 PM


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MELISSA BLOCK, host:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block with some Romantic capital R, poetry to end the week.

(Soundbite of movie, "Bright Star")

Mr. BEN WHISHAW (Actor): (As John Keats) I met a lady in the meads, full beautiful, a fairy's child. Her hair was long, her foot was light and her eyes were wild.

BLOCK: That's Ben Whishaw as the poet John Keats in the new movie "Bright Star," directed by Jane Campion. It's the story of the brief, intense love between Keats and 18-year-old Fanny Brawne, played in the film ...

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