In the first ever episode of Sparking Connections, Esmé walks Kim through one of their favourite poems: John Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale.' They discuss paradoxes, dreams, contemporary criticism, and how Lord Byron was... a lot.

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Show Notes:

Ode to a Nightingale By John Keats: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44479/ode-to-a-nightingale

References:

Image of letter from Lord Byron can be found at: https://pleaseholdfor.squarespace.com/sparkingconnections/episode-1-ode-to-a-nightingale

Bate, Walter Jackson, and Maura Del Serra, Negative Capability: On the Intuitive Approach in Keats, trans. by Dominic Siracusa, Revised ed. edition (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2012)

Bennett, Andrew, Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Gittings, Robert, ed., Letters of John Keats (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970)

Wu, Duncan, ed., Romanticism: An Anthology, 4th edition (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

Recommended Further Reading:

Morton, Timothy, ‘John Keats: Romantic Consumerism 3’, Romanticism Spring 2009 UC Davis <itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/itunes-university/id399641699> [accessed 30 September 2018]

O’Rourke, James, Keats’s ‘Odes’ and Contemporary Criticism (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998)

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