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
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.
With his assistance I succeeded, and this was his Ode to a Nightingale.'
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)
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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