Ode to a Nightingale
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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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The first-written of the four, the Ode to a Nightingale, is the most passionately human and personal of them all.
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)
At length one of us suggested Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale," to which the other immediately replied, "Why didn't we think of that before?"
From Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies by Jacks, L. P.
But he will most probably be best remembered by his marvellous odes, such as the Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, and others.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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