Below you will find written and video materials to supplement your experience with this film. Be aware that some essays and video essays may contain spoilers.
Critical Essays
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness: Keats and Fanny Brawne (Roger Ebert)
Jane Campion’s subtle and measured film about Keats (Guardian)
Her Own Verse Enemy (Reverse Shot)
Underming Keats (New York Review of Books)
Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) (Senses of Cinema)
Six Sonnets for Bright Star (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Contextual Reading
Keats, Fanny Brawne, and his poem “Bright Star”
Jane Campion’s Bright Star (interview)
The Romantics – The British Library
All 8 Jane Campion Films Ranked
