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Dec 22, 2017 · Since we have chosen to focus on his shorter poems here, an honourable mention must go to three of his longer narrative poems: “Isabella,” “The Eve of St Agnes,” and “Lamia.” Many more great poems haven’t made it, but here is our choice of the ten greatest poems by John Keats. 10. “Fancy” (1818)
Mar 20, 2017 · 1. ‘ Ode to Psyche ’. Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind …. The earliest of Keats’s 1819 odes, ‘Ode to Psyche’ is about the Greek embodiment of the soul and mind, Psyche. Keats declares that he will be Psyche’s ‘priest’ and build a temple to her in his mind.
Yet Keats today is seen as one of the canniest readers, interpreters, questioners, of the “modern” poetic project-which he saw as beginning with William Wordsworth —to create poetry in a world devoid of mythic grandeur, poetry that sought its wonder in the desires and sufferings of the human heart.
Ode to a Nightingale. By John Keats. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees.
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
