Ode to a Nightingale
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Within that year Keats turned out, among other poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Ode to Autumn, the Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Ode to a Nightingale, observes Dr. Dunbar, John Keats wrote a perfect, succinct description of a psychosomatic patient: "I have been half in love with easeful Death."
From Time Magazine Archive
Coleridge's "Ode to a Nightingale" was rejected as dealing with the wrong bird.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
Crewe, Earl of, owner of MS. of the Ode to a Nightingale, 354 n.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
This last passage seems to anticipate something of the magic of Keats in the Ode to a Nightingale or the Grecian Urn, the sense of continuity, and of eternity expressed in time.
From Mysticism in English Literature by Spurgeon, Caroline F. E.
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