The words of Romantic poet John Keats are heard as if for the first time in filmmaker Jane Campion’s (The Piano) visually splendid, intensely emotional film based on letters he wrote to his muse Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) during their two-year, unconsummated relationship. Seen from her point of view, the story follows this proud, vapid seamstress’s discovery of love with the doomed, impoverished young poet (Ben Whishaw), even as his patron and friend Charles Brown (Paul Schneider) objects to and interferes with their romance.