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Poetry Of John Keats: 'Ode To A Nightingale,' Introduction

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Keats, John

Keats, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"Ode To A Nightingale," Introduction:

No one knows for certain the order in which Keats composed his odes in
the spring of 1819. One conjecture, however, is that he wrote the "Ode to a
Nightingale" right after the "Ode to Psyche" and before any of the others. The
poet's friend Charles Brown has left this account of the writing of the poem:

"In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house.
Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took
his chair from the breakfast table to the grass plot under a plum ...

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