<p>This sensuous poem is the final work in Keats's '1819 odesto' - recall the Nightingale from<a href='https://pavilionend.podbean.com/e/ep-5-ode-to-a-nightingale-by-john-keats/'> Season 1, Episode 5</a>. The abundance of autumnal harvests is set against an undercurrent of unease and transience. Notice how the florid descriptions of nature is set against the formal rhetoric associated with odes.This also poem marks the poet's own autumn as he succumbed to tuberculosis in 1821 at just 25. </p>

This sensuous poem is the final work in Keats's '1819 odesto' - recall the Nightingale from Season 1, Episode 5. The abundance of autumnal harvests is set against an undercurrent of unease and transience. Notice how the florid descriptions of nature is set against the formal rhetoric associated with odes.This also poem marks the poet's own autumn as he succumbed to tuberculosis in 1821 at just 25.

<p>This sensuous poem is the final work in Keats's '1819 odesto' - recall the Nightingale from<a href="https://pavilionend.podbean.com/e/ep-5-ode-to-a-nightingale-by-john-keats/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Season 1, Episode 5</a>. The abundance of autumnal harvests is set against an undercurrent of unease and transience. Notice how the florid descriptions of nature is set against the formal rhetoric associated with odes.This also poem marks the poet's own autumn as he succumbed to tuberculosis in 1821 at just 25.&nbsp;</p>

S2 Ep 4: To Autumn by John Keats

Short readings of interesting poems and prose, read by Bill Ricquier. 
To request a reading, contact Bill at: billpavilionend.com/contact/

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Short readings of interesting poems and prose, read by Bill Ricquier. To request a reading, contact Bill at: billpavilionend.com/contact/

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