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.
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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."
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What he meant by Hamlet, or the Ode to a Nightingale, or Abt Vogler, we say, is this or that which we knew already; and so we lose what he had to tell us.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Roe, Frederick William
Near John Masefield's house was the garden where Keats had written his immortal Ode to a Nightingale.
From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec
In Isabella, the Ode to a Nightingale, Lamia, and Hyperion, he was beginning to paint these "agonies" and "the strife"; but death swiftly ended further progress on this road.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
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