Ye Old Reading Room

Ode to a Nightingale


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-- By John Keats --

In this piece, Keats' envisions himself as the 'sod' that the nightingale watches over. Ode to a Nightingale is one of six that Keats wrote culminating in Ode to Autumn. Experts theorize, based on Keats' writings, that this ode was written between April and May 1819 under a plum tree.

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Ye Old Reading RoomBy Patrick Fennell