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Jun25
The Best Movies that Feature Poetry

Dead Poets Society (Special Edition)I love movies. I especially love movies about writers. I really really love movies that feature my favorite writings.

Stacey Harwood has written an essay-long ode to poetry in movies, complete with hyperlinks to the poets and the films. Thankfully, she includes Dead Poets Society, the cheeseball movie that tilted my adolescent mind towards this strange profession.

It's so reassuring to see your favorite writers enshrined in films, and a good writing movie can break a case of writer's block.

I'd love to put together a similar list of movies that feature novels (not films based on novels, but movies where characters are reading and loving novels as much as we do), so feel free to throw in your favorite cameos by novels in the comments section. 

Check it out:

"If poetry naturally pops up in films about poet's lives or in "toast and eulogy" scenes that mimic real life—Shakespeare quoted by Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, a Tennyson pep talk uttered by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, Auden's "Funeral Blues" recited by John Hannah in Four Weddings and a Funeral—it also appears in dramatic ways that go beyond the expected."

(Thanks to Chekhov's Mistress for the link) 

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