Her film Bright Star, which starred Skyfall star Ben Whishaw as the poet John Keats, also showed at Cannes in 2009.

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In "The Sessions, " John Hawkes, nominated for Best Actor as a poet suffering from polio, spends the entire movie on his back.

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This was pointed out as long ago as the 17th century by John Donne, an English poet and divine, who wrote an entire book on suicide.

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Former UK Poet Laureate John Betjeman is alleged to have described the view as the finest in Europe.

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