Fanny Brawne was the muse and fiancée of which poet?
"track ""Human Orchestra"" composed by Bradshaw himself. It's on set that actor Ben Whishaw who plays John Keats and Mark Bradshaw met. Since the shooting, they are a couple. Bright Star (film) Bright Star is a 2009 British-French-Australian biographical fiction romantic drama film based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny. It was directed by Jane Campion, who wrote the screenplay inspired by Andrew Motion's biography of Keats; Motion served as a script consultant on the film."
"Frances Greville Frances Greville née Macartney (c 1724 – 1789) was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England. She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; one of four daughters of James Macartney and Catherine (née Coote), daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. By the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Horace Walpole's poem ""The Beauties"" (1746) mentions her as """"Fanny"""" among the most prominent women at court. Frances married Fulke Greville of Wilbury House (Wiltshire) in 1748 after an elopement. Greville"
"talent for dress-making and languages as well as a natural theatrical bent. During November 1818 she developed an intimacy with Keats, but it was shadowed by the illness of Tom Keats, whom John was nursing through this period. On 3 April 1819, Brawne and her widowed mother moved into the other half of Dilke's Wentworth Place, and Keats and Brawne were able to see each other every day. Keats began to lend Brawne books, such as Dante's ""Inferno"", and they would read together. He gave her the love sonnet ""Bright Star"" (perhaps revised for her) as a declaration. It was"
"was one of the first in England to be notified of Keats' death. Letters and drafts of poems suggest that Keats first met Frances (Fanny) Brawne between September and November 1818. It is likely that the 18-year-old Brawne visited the Dilke family at Wentworth Place before she lived there. She was born in the hamlet of West End (now in the district of West Hampstead), on 9 August 1800. Like Keats' grandfather, her grandfather kept a London inn, and both lost several family members to tuberculosis. She shared her first name with both Keats' sister and mother, and had a"
"remained unconsummated; jealousy for his 'star' began to gnaw at him. Darkness, disease and depression surrounded him, reflected in poems such as ""The Eve of St. Agnes"" and ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" where love and death both stalk. ""I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks;"" he wrote to her, ""...your loveliness, and the hour of my death"". In one of his many hundreds of notes and letters, Keats wrote to Brawne on 13 October 1819: ""My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you"
"Fanny Murray Fanny Murray (1729 in Bath – 2 April 1778 in London), née Fanny Rudman and later Fanny Ross, was an 18th-century English courtesan, mistress to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and dedicatee of the fateful ""Essay on Woman"" (1763) that led to the downfall of John Wilkes. A contemporary of Kitty Fisher and Charlotte Hayes, the ""celebrated Fanny Murray"" was one of the most prominent courtesans of her day; a celebrity and fashion leader who rose from destitution to wealth and fame, before settling down into a life of ""respectable prosperity"". The ""Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss"
"with little money. In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, ""in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground."" He was never to see his father again. While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne. These journal-letters now represent the only surviving account of the poet's"
"personal or newspaper attacks. I have seen him writhe under mental pain even upon a criticism of a poem."" Sumner Lincoln Fairfield Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (June 25, 1803 – March 6, 1844) was an American poet, born in Warwick, Massachusetts to Dr. Abner Fairfield and Lucy Lincoln. From 1818 to 1820, he studied at Brown University, but he was compelled to leave after 2 years. He taught school in Georgia and South Carolina. In December 1825 he spent 4 months in England and when he returned he married Jane Frazee on September 20, 1826. Sumner had a very sensitive and"
"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ""Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art"" is the first line of a love sonnet by John Keats. It is unclear when Keats first drafted ""Bright Star""; his biographers suggest different dates. Andrew Motion suggests it was begun in October 1819. Robert Gittings states that Keats began the poem in April 1818 – before he met his beloved Fanny Brawne – and he later revised it for her. Colvin believed it to have been in the last week of February 1819, immediately after their informal engagement. The final version"
"aged 25. Severn believed that it was Keats's last ever poem and that it had been composed especially for him. The poem came to be forever associated with the ""Bright Star"" Fanny Brawne – with whom Keats became infatuated. Gittings says it was given as ""a declaration of his love."" It was officially published in 1838 in ""The Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal"", 17 years after Keats's death. Bright Star <br>Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— <br>Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night <br>And watching, with eternal lids apart, <br>Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, <br>The moving"
"was inspired by Yeats' marriage and, specifically, served as an ode to the kind of love that he shared with his wife Georgie Hyde Lees also known as George. For context, one can turn to Yeats' years of obsessive infatuation with Maude Gonne, an English heiress who rejected his marriage proposal three times. She became her muse and the subject of several of his poems written within a span of at least 20 years. When the poet finally ended his ties with Gonne, he proposed marriage to Lees in 1917 and was accepted. The marriage was surprisingly successful despite the"
"Sumner Lincoln Fairfield Sumner Lincoln Fairfield (June 25, 1803 – March 6, 1844) was an American poet, born in Warwick, Massachusetts to Dr. Abner Fairfield and Lucy Lincoln. From 1818 to 1820, he studied at Brown University, but he was compelled to leave after 2 years. He taught school in Georgia and South Carolina. In December 1825 he spent 4 months in England and when he returned he married Jane Frazee on September 20, 1826. Sumner had a very sensitive and melancholy personality and according to his wife Jane, ""His nature was haughty, unbending, and reserved; he could not brook"
"on May 11, 1833. It was signed ""TAMERLANE"" (just as the poem ""Fanny,"" which would be printed in the same periodical one week later) and addressed to an anonymous woman. It is essentially a lullaby. This, another of several poems by Poe addressed to an unnamed person, begins with the line ""Not long ago, the writer of these lines..."" It was later renamed ""To Marie Louise"" for Marie Louise Shew, a woman who helped Poe's wife as she was dying. The poem that begins ""Beloved! amid the earnest woes..."" was published by the ""Broadway Journal"" twice in 1845 - once"
"Catherine Maria Fanshawe Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834) was an English poet, the daughter of John Fanshawe (1738–1816), a Surrey squire, and his wife Penelope (""née"" Dredge). She was born at Shabden in Chipstead, Surrey. Her poetry was praised by Walter Scott. She and her sisters were also artists. Fanshawe's father held a post in the household of King George III. She and her two sisters were his co-heirs. They lived at 15 Berkeley Square, London, and at Midhurst House, Richmond, Surrey, but also visited Italy due to poor health. She died after a long illness at Putney Heath, then in"
"Maria Gowen Brooks Maria Gowen (or Gowan) Brooks (pen name, A Lover of Fine Arts and Maria Del Occidente; 1794 – November 11, 1845) was an American poet. She impressed Edgar Allan Poe and the English Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who promoted her best-known poem ""Zophiël"". Abigail Gowen was born in Medford, Massachusetts, 1794. Her father was a man of literary tastes, and she was exposed to a lot of poetry at home. By age nine, she had memorized a large quantity of prose. Unfortunately, when Abigail was thirteen, her father died, bankrupt. She immediately came under the care of"
"Leda and comes to court her in the guise of a beautiful swan. The poet feels that the Thames has done justice to his nuptial song by ""flowing softly"" according to his request: ""Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song"". The poem is often grouped with Spenser's poem about his own marriage, the ""Epithalamion"". Prothalamion Prothalamion, the commonly used name of , is a poem by Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), one of the important poets of the Tudor period in England. Published in 1596 (see 1596 in poetry), it is a nuptial song that he composed that year on"
"Cadenus and Vanessa Cadenus and Vanessa is a poem by Jonathan Swift about one of his lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), written in 1712 and published as a book in 1726, three years after the death of Vanhomrigh. It contains in its title an anagram and a neologism: ""Cadenus"" is an anagram of the Latin ""decanus"", meaning ‘dean’: Swift was dean of St Patrick's, and known as Dean Swift in the manner of the time. The neologism is ""Vanessa"", in secret reference to Esther Vanhomrigh. The name starts with the first three letters of her surname and the first two of"
"Frances Sargent Osgood Frances Sargent Osgood (""née"" Locke) (June 18, 1811 – May 12, 1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time. Nicknamed ""Fanny"", she was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe. Frances Sargent Locke was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Locke, a wealthy merchant, and his second wife, Mary Ingersoll Foster. Her father's first wife, Martha Ingersoll, was the sister of Mary, his second wife. Mary was also the widow of Benjamin Foster, by whom she had two children: William Vincent Foster and Anna"
"Francis Fawkes Francis Fawkes (1720–1777) was an English poet and translator. Fawkes translated Anacreon, Sappho, and other classics, modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas, and was the author of the well-known song, ""The Brown Jug"", and of two poems, ""Bramham Park"" and ""Partridge Shooting"". His translation of the ""Argonautica"" in rhymed couplets appeared in 1780. Fawkes was born near Doncaster, the son of Jeremiah Fawkes, for twenty-eight years rector of Warmsworth, Doncaster, and was baptised at Warmsworth 4 April 1720. He was educated at Bury Grammar School under the Rev. John Lister. On 16 March 1738 he was"
"husband, Thomas Fotheringham. She was widowed in 1864. A few years later, she published her first volume of poetry, ""Stella, and other poems"" (1867), under the pseudonym ""Florenz"". The eponymous poem in the collection, ""Stella"", is set in the Italian Peninsula and features the doomed love of Count Marone and Stella. He is a man seeking Italian unification, she a daughter of the Neapolitan aristocracy, which is resisting this cause. Her early death causes her lover to seek the perils of the battlefield in an attempt to distract his mind. The subject matter is similar to ""Maud"" (1855) by Alfred,"
"novel, ""Lady Singleton"", published in 1842. In Heidelberg he formed a deep attachment to the poet Caroline Champion de Crespigny (1797–1861), Their relationship was essentially intellectual, as neither could afford a divorce settlement from their estranged spouses. The English colony in Heidelberg was intimate. Medwin's acquaintances there included Mary and William Howitt, who found him a man of ""culture and refinement, aristocratic in his tastes"". In the early 1840s Fanny Brawn(e) Lindon, once John Keats's lover, moved to Heidelberg, and through her Medwin was involved once again in a controversy concerning a dead, but influential English romantic poet. Medwin and"
"love poetry, with its complex use of literary conceits, as anticipating that of the metaphysical poets in the next century. More recently, the critic Patricia Thomson describes Wyatt as ""the Father of English Poetry"". Many legends and conjectures have grown up around the notion that the young, unhappily married Wyatt fell in love with the young Anne Boleyn in the early-to-mid-1520s. Their acquaintance is certain, but whether or not the two shared a romantic relationship remains unknown. The nineteenth-century critic George Gilfillan implies that Wyatt and Boleyn were romantically connected. In his verse Wyatt calls his mistress Anna and allegedly"
"miscellany of 1726. Because of her association with fellow writers as an equal, her former friend and fellow-writer Eliza Haywood attacked Fowke in a scandalous account of her relationships which affected the poet's reputation badly. Martha Fowke Martha Fowke, later Martha Sansom, (1 May 1689 – 1736) was an English poet associated chiefly with the circle about Aaron Hill. She was the daughter of Major Thomas Fowke and his wife Mary (née Cullen). Born in Hertfordshire on 1 May 1689 to a family of Roman Catholic gentry, she was educated at home and at boarding school. Her mother was less"
"written first and ""To Autumn"" written last. Sometime between these two, he wrote ""Ode to a Nightingale"". It is possible that ""Ode to a Nightingale"" was written between 26 April and 18 May 1819, based on weather conditions and similarities between images in the poem and those in a letter sent to Fanny Brawne on May Day. The poem was composed at the Hampstead house Keats shared with Brown, possibly while sitting beneath a plum tree in the garden. According to Keats' friend Brown, Keats finished the ode in just one morning: ""In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had"
"""The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich"" (1848) and ""Poems"" (1841–1844–1849–1852). Attribution: Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough ( ; 1 January 181913 November 1861) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough and father to Blanche Athena Clough who both became principals of Newnham College, Cambridge. Arthur Clough was born in Liverpool to James Butler Clough, a cotton merchant of Welsh descent, and Anne Perfect, from Pontefract in Yorkshire. In 1822 the family moved to the United States, and Clough's early childhood was spent mainly in Charleston, South Carolina."
"Martha Fowke Martha Fowke, later Martha Sansom, (1 May 1689 – 1736) was an English poet associated chiefly with the circle about Aaron Hill. She was the daughter of Major Thomas Fowke and his wife Mary (née Cullen). Born in Hertfordshire on 1 May 1689 to a family of Roman Catholic gentry, she was educated at home and at boarding school. Her mother was less supportive of her daughter's writing than her father. Fowke lived in London after her mother died in 1705 but moved to East Anglia in 1730 with her husband, Arnold Sansom, whom she had married around"
"1792. Fanny's husband was Adam Armour, a builder, brother of Jean Armour, thereby Fanny became Jean's sister-in-law as well as her niece. Adam Armour was immortalised in the poem """"Adam Armour's Prayer"""" and the couple had five sons and four daughters. Adam was an adherent of the 'Auld Licht' persuasion and as such was in direct opposition to Robert Burns whose poem relates an incident regarding an Agnes Wilson, a maid at Poosy Nancy's, who was thought to be a prostitute. Adam Armour and a group of associates placed her on a pole and rode her out of town, injuring"
"her unconsummated love affair with Robert Burns, while also highlighting the poet's relationship with Jenny Clow. Jenny Clow Janet, Jennie or Jenny Clow was a domestic servant to Mrs Agnes Maclehose, née Craig (1759-1841), the Clarinda to Robert Burns' Sylvander. She was the daughter of Andrew (or Alexander) Clow and Margaret Inglis from Fife and was the youngest of eight children. Her mistress sent her to deliver a letter to the poet and he seduced her. Following an affair whilst with the poet while he was in Edinburgh, the twenty-year-old Jenny Clow gave birth in November 1788 to Robert Burns's"
"showed them to W. J. Fox. Fox also liked the poems but convinced Browning that they were not good enough for publication. The poems were eventually destroyed by Browning, with much of his other work, in 1884. Browning developed a boyish love for Flower, nine years his senior, and remained fond of her until her death. She was the inspiration for his poem ""Pauline"". Eliza Flower Eliza Flower (1803 – 12 December 1846) was a British musician and composer. In addition to her own work, Flower became known for her friendships including those with William Johnson Fox, Robert Browning, John"
"become a key subject to which Fane often returned to in her poetry. These poems form a sequence which are referred to as the ‘Clara Poems’. When Charlie Lamb died under suspicious circumstances in 1856, Lady Sophia Adelaide Theodosia Pelham, the wife of Archibald William Montgomerie, 14th Earl of Eglinton, took the young Fane under her care and introduced her to London society, where she rapidly became well known as a great conversationalist and a woman of considerable wit. She fell in love with Clare Vyner, a handsome Yorkshire squire, in the early 1860s, but their attachment did not lead"
"includes one of Stanford's best-known songs, 'The Fairy Lough'. Her poem ""Sea Wrack"" was also set to music for voice and piano by the composer Hamilton Harty and this remains a popular work today. Her daughter, Mary Nesta Skrine (1904–1996), was a writer, known as Molly Keane and ""M. J. Farrell"". Moira O'Neill Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), a popular Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun. In 1895, she and her husband Walter Skrine lived on a 16,500 acre ranch in Alberta. She also"
"city tolerable for people of literary tastes"". Milnes was a persistent suitor of Florence Nightingale (who finally refused to marry him), and one of her staunchest supporters along with the statesman Sidney Herbert. On 30 July 1851, he married the Honourable Annabel, daughter of John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe. She died in 1874. Lord Houghton died at Vichy, France, in August 1885, aged 76, and was buried at Fryston. He was succeeded in the barony by his son, Robert, who became a prominent Liberal statesman and was created Earl of Crewe in 1895 and Marquess of Crewe in 1911. The"
"with a real historical individual. Lucy Negro, Mary Fitton, Emilia Lanier, Elizabeth Wriothesley, and others have been suggested. The Rival Poet's identity remains a mystery. If Shakespeare’s patron and friend was Pembroke, Shakespeare was not the only poet that praised his beauty; Francis Davison did in a sonnet that is the preface to Davison's quarto ""A Poetical Rhapsody"" (1608), which was published just before Shakespeare’s Sonnets. John Davies of Hereford, Samuel Daniel, George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson are also candidates that find support among clues in the sonnets. It may be that the Rival Poet is a composite"