Keats and his nightingale: blind date

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1985

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Present-day people, ranging from morgue attendants to hockey fans react to John Keats' 1819 Ode to a nightingale, a poem about immortality, pain, and yearning. Alternating between interviews and a tongue-in-cheek version of an educational film on Keats, the documentary comments on modern-day resistance to poetry enjoyment as well as the filmmaking process.

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