There has been a "general shift", she says, from the vampire as exotic foreigner - as depicted in Romantic poetry in the 19th Century and most famously in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula - to the vampire as edgy "outsider".

BBC: How vampires got all touchy-feely

Longing and regret, artistic frustration and new hope, self-revelation and self-loathing arise from loopy coincidences, tough reunions, and urban street poetry in this delicate romantic comedy by the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo.

NEWYORKER: The Day He Arrives

He understands the fragility of the Romantic mind, and finds tiny clues in the poetry or the prose that would elude a less sensitive observer.

ECONOMIST: Literary biography

Anxious to transform the prosaic into the romantic, his admirers speak of a poet of light and the poetry of silence.

ECONOMIST: The mysterious paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi