John Keats' poems used in the film are: Endymion, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, The Eve of St Agnes, Ode to a Nightingale, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Bright Star.
Dame Jane Campion was a member of the jury at the 2007 Venice Film Festival and was especially impressed with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), including Paul Schneider's performance in the film, so she offered him the role of Charles Armitage Brown in this film.
The Hyde House and Estate in Hyde, Bedfordshire substituted for the Keats House in Hampstead. Dame Jane Campion decided that the Keats House (also known as Wentworth Place) was too small and "a little bit fusty".
The main star of the film, Ben Whishaw met his husband, composer Mark Bradshaw while both were working on this film. They got civilly married in 2012.
Abbie Cornish was the first actress to audition for the part, and waited one month to hear that she got it.
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