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Keats's Ode to a Nightingale.(John Keats)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20050322
Author:Scott, Heidi

In an April 1819 letter to his brother and sister, Keats confessed his struggles with finding his ideal poetic form, struggles that manifested themselves in his abandonment of the Miltonic blank verse of "Hyperion." In the letter, he included several sonnets that showed a diversion from both the English and Italian forms: 

 
      I have been endeavouring to discover a better sonnet stanza than 
      we have. The legitimate [Petrarchan] does not suit the language 
      over-well from the pouncing rhymes--the other kind [Shakespearian] 
      appears too elegiac--and the couplet at ...

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