Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (1819)
Keats's friend Charles Brown said that he wrote this poem in just a few hours on scraps of paper, after spotting a nightingale near Brown's house. Keats is generally considered a key member of the Romantic poets, in particular of the second generation which included writers like Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
POEM: "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats (1819)
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"Ode to a Nightingale" by Keats: Analysis
SOURCE: MissHannahLovesGrammar (2019), posted on YouTube, [22:50 mins.] URL: https://youtu.be/tXpDZFqM54I