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Jane Campion

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, t

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Jane Campion is reflecting on her personal experience of connecting deeply with the works of Romantic poets like John Keats, Shelley, and Byron. She notes that these poets are often remembered as symbols of romance partly because they all died at a young age, which adds a tragic and lasting impact to their legacy.

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