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"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art" is the first line of a love sonnet by John Keats. ==Background== It is unclear when Keats first drafted "Bright Star"; his biographers suggest different dates. Andrew Motion suggests it was begun in October 1819.〔 Motion (1997) p472 〕 Robert Gittings states that Keats began the poem in April 1818 — before he met his beloved Fanny Brawne — and he later revised it for her.〔 Gittings (1969) p 415〕 Colvin believed it to have been in the last week of February 1819, immediately after their informal engagement. The final version of the sonnet was copied into a volume of ''The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare'', opposite Shakespeare's poem, ''A Lover's Complaint''. The book had been given to Keats in 1819 by John Hamilton Reynolds. Joseph Severn maintained that the last draft was transcribed into the book in late September 1820 while they were aboard the ship ''Maria Crowther'', travelling to Rome, from where the very sick Keats would never return. The book also contains one sonnet by his friend Reynolds and one by Severn. Keats probably gave the book to Joseph Severn in January 1821 before his death in February, aged 25. 〔 ''Notes and Queries'' Article, Oxford Journals, 2006. (Notes and Queries article )〕〔 (See the book at the Keats House archive )〕 Severn believed that it was Keats's last ever poem and that it had been composed especially for him. The poem came to be forever associated with the "Bright Star" Fanny Brawne - with whom Keats became infatuated. Gittings says it was given as "a declaration of his love."〔 Gittings (1968), p293-8 〕 It was officially published in 1838 in ''The Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal'', 17 years after Keats's death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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