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Synopsis
London 1818: a secret love
affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats,
and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of
fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a
stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general.
It was the illness of Keats’s younger brother that drew them
together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and
agreed to teach her poetry.
By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother and Keats’s best friend
Brown realized their attachment, the relationship had an
unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in
each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new
sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”,
Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic
obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only
Keats’s illness proved insurmountable.
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