John Keats - Selected Odes

John Keats – 1795 - 1821

        John Keats was one of the most important figures in Romantic Age. He was not only the last but one of the perfect Romanticists. John Keats become famous after his death and by the end of 19^th century, he has become the most beloved of all English poets. (Wikipedia)

       John Keats was very famous for his appreciation of beauty in all his poems. His Odes are very famous. Here I have explained his four odes which I have studies in my masters. Here I have presented the brief overview of selected odes. For more explanation click on the images below.

 

    1)  Ode on a Grecian Urn –

    

    The poem was writer in May 1819 and published anonymously in the month of January 1820. The poem was included in several “Great Odes of 1819”.

    

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    2)  Ode to a Nightingale –

      The poem is written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the house Keats and Brown shared in the spring of 1819

                                               
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    3)  Ode to Psyche –

     "Ode to Psyche" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes "Ode to Psyche" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene.

                                                
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     4)  Ode to Autumn -  

     

     The poem was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820. "To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's "1819 odes". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he composed "To Autumn" after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. A little over a year following the publication of "To Autumn", Keats died in Rome.

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