Craig Raine

The nightmare of making films about poets

Craig Raine explains the challenges of translating poets’ lives and work to the screen

Keats and Fanny Brawne didn’t have sex, but there are some yearning approximations: Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne. Credit: BBC Films/Kobal/Shutterstock

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