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"Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats 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.
John Keats in 1819, painted by his friend Joseph Severn. In 1819, ... The 'Ode to a Nightingale,' for example, is a less 'perfect' though a greater poem."
Keats, Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath by Joseph Severn. Like many of Keats's odes, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" discusses art and art's audience. He relied on depictions of natural music in earlier poems, and works such as "Ode to a Nightingale" appeal to auditory sensations while ignoring the visual.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode on Melancholy" were inspired by sonnet forms and probably written after "Ode to a Nightingale". [3] Keats's new and progressive publishers Taylor and Hessey issued Endymion , which Keats dedicated to Thomas Chatterton , a work that he termed "a trial of my Powers of Imagination". [ 3 ]
A.C. Swinburne placed it with "Ode on a Grecian Urn" as "the nearest to absolute perfection" of Keats's odes; Aileen Ward declared it "Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem"; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is "flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm"; [53] Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that "To Autumn" is "the only ...
Ode to Apollo (1815) Robin Hood (To a Friend) (1818) Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (1818) Ode to Maia (1818) Bards of Passion and of Mirth (1818) Ode to Fanny (1819) 1819 odes: Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Indolence; Ode on Melancholy; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Psyche; To Autumn
In The Masks of Keats, Thomas McFarland suggests that Keats's beautiful words and images attempt to combine the non-beautiful subject of melancholy with the beauty inherent in the form of the ode. He too writes that the images of the bursting grape and the "globèd peonies" show an intention by the poet to bring the subject of sexuality into ...
John Keats bibliography; John Keats's 1819 odes; B. La Belle Dame sans Merci; Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art ... Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Psyche ...