42-588: Bright Star or variations of the term may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media [ edit ] Film and music [ edit ] Bright Star (film) , 2009 feature about the life of poet John Keats Bright Star (musical) , 2015 American musical Bright Star (radio) , 1950s American drama series "Bright Star", a song by Anaïs Mitchell from Anaïs Mitchell , 2022 Places [ edit ] Brightstar, Arkansas Other uses [ edit ] " Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art ",
84-586: A brewery labourer in the East End of London to ownership of his own successful brewery. When his children had grown up and married, he sold the Upton House estate and went to live at Stisted Hall, in Essex. When Motion was 12 years old, the family moved to Glebe House at Stisted , near Braintree in Essex, where Richard Motion's grandparents had previously lived at Stisted Hall, by that time converted into
126-544: A class of star List of brightest stars Kwangmyŏngsŏng program , translated as Bright Star, North Korean satellites Bright Star Wilderness , area in Kern County, California Bright Star Technology , multimedia company BrightStar Gold Mine , a gold mine in Western Australia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
168-428: A companion to the motion picture, entitled Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne . The 144-page book was published by Penguin and includes an introduction written by Campion. Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded
210-660: A creative writing class at his alma mater, Radley College , before giving a poetry reading and thanking Peter Way, the man who taught him English at Radley, for making him who he was. Carol Ann Duffy succeeded him as Poet Laureate on 1 May 2009. Motion is chairman of the Arts Council of England's literature panel (appointed 1996) and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . In 2003, he became professor of creative writing at Royal Holloway , University of London . Since July 2009, Motion has been Chairman of
252-615: A home for the elderly. Motion went to boarding school from the age of seven joined by his younger brother. Most of his friends were from the school and so when Motion was in the village, he spent a lot of time on his own. He began to have an interest and affection for the countryside, and he went for walks with a pet dog. Later he went to Radley College , where, in the sixth form , he encountered Peter Way, an inspiring English teacher who introduced him to poetry – first Thomas Hardy , then Philip Larkin , W. H. Auden , Seamus Heaney , Ted Hughes , Wordsworth and Keats . When Motion
294-436: A love sonnet by John Keats SS Bright Star , a Panamanian coaster Operation Bright Star , name given to a number of U.S. military operations Bright Stars FC , Ugandan football club Fred Murree , Pawnee professional roller skater known as Bright Star Brightstar Corporation , a logistics and supply chain company See also [ edit ] Bright Star Catalogue , astronomical catalogue Bright giant ,
336-523: A post at the Writing Seminars as a Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University . Motion has said of himself: "My wish to write a poem is inseparable from my wish to explain something to myself." His work combines lyrical and narrative aspects in a "postmodern-romantic sensibility". Motion says that he aims to write in clear language without tricks. The Independent describes
378-399: A worldwide total of $ 14.4m. Lakeshore Records released the soundtrack for Bright Star digitally ( iTunes and Amazon Digital ) on 15 September 2009 and in stores on 13 October 2009. The film's soundtrack features original music by Mark Bradshaw with dialogue from the film voiced by Cornish and Whishaw. A collection of Keats's love letters and selected poems was published in 2009 as
420-416: Is a 2009 biographical romantic drama film , written and directed by Jane Campion . It is based on the last three years of the life of poet John Keats (played by Ben Whishaw ) and his romantic relationship with Fanny Brawne ( Abbie Cornish ). Campion's screenplay was inspired by a 1997 biography of Keats by Andrew Motion , who served as a script consultant. Bright Star was in the main competition at
462-432: Is heartbroken, though she is comforted by Keats' love letters. When the men return in the autumn, Fanny's mother voices her concern that Fanny's attachment to the poet will hinder her from being courted by a more obviously eligible suitor. Fanny and Keats secretly become engaged. Keats contracts tuberculosis the following winter. He spends several weeks recovering until spring. His friends collect funds so that he may spend
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#1732790263880504-478: The 2009 Cannes Film Festival , and was first shown to the public on 15 May 2009. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats titled " Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art ", which he wrote while he was with Brawne. In 1818 Hampstead , the fashionable Fanny Brawne is introduced to poet John Keats through the Dilke family. The Dilkes occupy one half of a double house, with Charles Brown occupying
546-915: The Larkin 25 festival commemorating the 25th anniversary of Philip Larkin 's death. In his capacity as Larkin's biographer and as a former lecturer in English at the University of Hull , Motion named an East Yorkshire Motor Services bus Philip Larkin . Motion's debut play Incoming , about the war in Afghanistan, premièred at the High Tides Festival in Halesworth , Suffolk in May 2011. Motion also featured in Jamie's Dream School in 2011 as
588-527: The Man Booker Prize 2010 and in March 2010, he announced that he was working with publishers Jonathan Cape on a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island . Entitled Silver , the story is set a generation on from the original book and was published in March 2012. In July 2010, Motion returned to Kingston-upon-Hull for the annual Humber Mouth literature festival and taking part in
630-723: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) appointed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . He is also a vice-president of the Friends of the British Library , a charity which provides funding support to the British Library . He was knighted in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours list. He has been a member of English Heritage 's Blue Plaques Panel since 2008. Motion was selected as jury chair for
672-462: The Poetry Archive , an on-line library of historic and contemporary recordings of poets reciting their own work. Motion remarked that he found some of the duties attendant to the post of poet laureate difficult and onerous and that the appointment had been "very, very damaging to [his] work". The appointment of Motion met with criticism from some quarters. As he prepared to stand down from
714-510: The Poetry Archive , an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England , taking over from Bill Bryson . Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London, to (Andrew) Richard Michael Motion (1921-2006), a brewer at Ind Coope , and (Catherine) Gillian (née Bakewell; 1928–1978). Richard Motion
756-588: The Poetry Society 's Poetry Review from 1980 to 1982 and succeeded Malcolm Bradbury as professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia . He is now on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars . Motion was appointed Poet Laureate on 1 May 1999, following the death of Ted Hughes , the previous incumbent. The Nobel Prize –winning Northern Irish poet and translator Seamus Heaney had ruled himself out for
798-739: The TUC about liberty, about homelessness for the Salvation Army , about bullying for ChildLine , about the foot and mouth outbreak for the Today programme , about the Paddington rail disaster , the 11 September attacks and Harry Patch for the BBC, and more recently about shell shock for the charity Combat Stress , and climate change for the song cycle he finished for Cambridge University with Peter Maxwell Davies ." On 14 March 2002, as part of
840-460: The 'Re-weaving Rainbows' event of National Science Week 2002, Motion unveiled a blue plaque on the front wall of 28 St Thomas Street , Southwark , to commemorate the sharing of lodgings there by John Keats and Henry Stephens while they were medical students at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in 1815–16. In 2003, Motion wrote Regime change , a poem in protest at the Invasion of Iraq from
882-473: The Brawne family. He begins giving her poetry lessons, and it becomes apparent that their attraction is mutual. Fanny is nevertheless troubled by his reluctance to pursue her, as to which her mother surmises, "Mr. Keats knows he cannot like you, he has no living and no income." It is only after Fanny receives a valentine card from Brown that Keats passionately confronts them and asks if they are lovers. Brown sent
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#1732790263880924-552: The film, including " La Belle Dame sans Merci " and " Ode to a Nightingale ". Both Campion and Whishaw completed extensive research in preparation for the film. Many of the lines in the script are taken directly from Keats' letters. Whishaw, as well, learned how to write with a quill and ink during filming. The letters that Fanny Brawne receives from Keats in the film were actually written by Whishaw in his own hand. Janet Patterson , who has worked with Campion for over 20 years, served as both costume designer and production designer for
966-656: The film. The Hyde House and Estate in Hyde, Bedfordshire , substituted for the Keats House in Hampstead . Campion decided that the Keats House (also known as Wentworth Place) was too small and "a little bit fusty". Some filming also took place at Elstree Studios . Composer Mark Bradshaw can be seen in the film as the conductor while the male choir performs the track Human Orchestra , which Bradshaw arranged from
1008-439: The following February of complications from his illness, as his brother Tom did. In the last moments of the film, Fanny cuts her hair in an act of mourning, dons black attire, and walks the snowy paths that Keats had walked many times. It is there that she recites the love sonnet that he had written for her, called "Bright Star", as she grieves the death of her lover. In addition to "Bright Star" several other poems are recited in
1050-529: The following winter in Italy, where the climate is warmer. After Brown impregnates a maid and is unable to accompany him, Keats finds accommodation in London for the summer, and is later taken in by the Brawne family following an attack of his illness. When his book sells with moderate success, Fanny's mother gives him her blessing to marry Fanny once he returns from Italy. The night before he leaves, he and Fanny say their tearful goodbyes in privacy. Keats dies in Italy
1092-505: The job, Motion published an article in The Guardian that concluded, "To have had 10 years working as laureate has been remarkable. Sometimes it's been remarkably difficult, the laureate has to take a lot of flak, one way or another. More often it has been remarkably fulfilling. I'm glad I did it, and I'm glad I'm giving it up – especially since I mean to continue working for poetry." Motion spent his last day as Poet Laureate holding
1134-488: The literal wealth of its texture. She has evoked the mystery of his genius without giving up the reality of its dailiness." In 2019, The Guardian added the film in its 100 best films of the 21st century list. In 2019, the BBC polled 368 film experts from 84 countries to name the 100 greatest films directed by women; Bright Star was voted at No. 54. Bright Star grossed $ 3,110,560 at the box office in Australia for
1176-508: The most out of her cast – especially Abbie Cornish – in this understated period drama." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Mary Colbert of SBS awarded the film five stars out of five. "If Campion intended to inspire an appreciation and rediscovery of Keats' poetry," she writes, "she has not only succeeded but herself created an artistic monument to his life, love, poetry and soul." Craig Mathieson stated in
1218-446: The other half. Brown is Keats' friend, housemate, and associate in writing. Fanny's flirtatious personality contrasts with Keats' notably more aloof nature. She begins to pursue him after her siblings Samuel and Toots obtain his book of poetry, " Endymion ". Her efforts to interact with the poet are fruitless until he witnesses her grief for the loss of his brother, Tom. Keats begins to open up to her advances while spending Christmas with
1260-595: The poetry teacher. In June 2012, he became the President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England . In March 2014 he was elected an Honorary Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge . Motion won the 2015 Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry for the radio programme Coming Home . The production featured poetry by Motion based on recordings he made of British soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . In 2017 Motion moved to Baltimore, Maryland to take up
1302-671: The point of view of Death walking the streets during the conflict, and in 2005, "Spring Wedding" in honour of the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Camilla Parker Bowles . Commissioned to write in the honour of 109-year-old Harry Patch , the last surviving " Tommy " to have fought in the First World War , Motion composed a five-part poem, read and received by Patch at the Bishop's Palace in Wells in 2008. As laureate, he also founded
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1344-421: The post. Breaking with the tradition of the laureate retaining the post for life, Motion stipulated that he would stay for only ten years. The yearly stipend of £200 was increased to £5,000 and he received the customary butt of sack . He wanted to write "poems about things in the news, and commissions from people or organisations involved with ordinary life", rather than be seen as a 'courtier'. So, he wrote "for
1386-453: The same review that Bright Star is Jane Campion's "best work since The Piano , her epochal 1993 masterpiece." Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four. Poet and scholar Stanley Plumly , the author of Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography , wrote of the film's writing and direction: "Jane Campion has understood the richly figurative in Keats' life without sacrificing
1428-770: The stalwart poet as the "charming and tireless defender of the art form". Motion has won the Arvon Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize , Eric Gregory Award , Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Dylan Thomas Prize . Motion took part in the Bush Theatre 's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books , writing and performing a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible . Motion's marriage to Joanna Powell ended in 1983. He
1470-403: The third movement of the serenade for twelve winds and string bass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . The film garnered positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% out of 175 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average score of 7.26/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Jane Campion's direction is as refined as her screenplay, and she gets
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1554-509: The valentine in jest, but warns Keats that Fanny is a mere flirt playing a game. Fanny is hurt by Brown's accusations and Keats' lack of faith in her; she ends their lessons and leaves. The Dilkes move to Westminster in the spring, leaving the Brawne family their half of the house and six months rent. Fanny and Keats then resume their interaction and fall deeply in love. The relationship comes to an abrupt end when Brown departs with Keats for his summer holiday, where Keats may earn some money. Fanny
1596-427: The village to study English at University College, Oxford ; however, since then he has remained in contact with the village to visit the church graveyard, where his parents are buried, and also to see his brother, who lives nearby. At university he studied at weekly sessions with W. H. Auden , whom he greatly admired. Motion won the university's Newdigate Prize and graduated with a first class honours degree . This
1638-430: Was 17 years old, his mother had a horse-riding accident and suffered a serious head injury requiring a lifesaving neurosurgery operation. She regained some speech, but she was severely paralysed and remained in and out of coma for nine years. She died in 1978 and her husband died of cancer in 2006. Motion has said that he wrote to keep his memory of his mother alive. When Motion was about 18 years old, he moved away from
1680-504: Was Larkin's longtime companion Monica Jones who requested it. He reports how, as executor, he rescued many of Larkin's papers from imminent destruction following his friend's death. His 1993 biography of Larkin, which won the Whitbread Prize for Biography , was responsible for bringing about a substantial revision of Larkin's reputation. Motion was editorial director and poetry editor at Chatto & Windus (1983–89); he edited
1722-579: Was followed by an MLitt on the poetry of Edward Thomas . Between 1976 and 1980, Motion taught English at the University of Hull and while there, at the age of 24, he had his first volume of poetry published. At Hull he met the university librarian and poet Philip Larkin . Motion was later appointed as one of Larkin's literary executors, which would privilege Motion's role as his biographer following Larkin's death in 1985. In Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life , Motion says that at no time during their nine-year friendship did they discuss writing his biography and it
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1764-483: Was from a brewing dynasty; his grandfather founded Taylor Walker , but by Richard Motion's time this had been absorbed by Ind Coope. The Motion family were wealthy armigers who lived at Upton House , Banbury , Oxfordshire , and were prominent in the local area; Richard Motion's grandfather Andrew Richard Motion was a Justice of the Peace for Essex , Oxfordshire and Warwickshire , who had worked his way up from being
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