The Essay - An Ode To John Keats

In 1819 John Keats wrote five odes, celebratory poems regarded to be among the highest quality in the English language. during this collection of The Essay, 5 leading modern poets every rejoice a single ode via Keats, explaining what the work potential to them. MondayFrom her domestic in rural Devon, Alice Oswald brings collectively her entertaining mix of poetic sensibility, classical scholarship and private impressions as she explores Keats' outstanding poem, Ode On A Grecian Urn. TuesdayThe numerous award-successful poet Sean O'Brien explores the depth and which means of Ode On melancholy. Sean discusses Keats' masterful use of language, and shares the poems own sentimental him in my view considering that the loss of fellow-poet and pal Michael Donaghy, who used to recite the ode through coronary heart. Wednesday Frances Leviston celebrates in all probability Keats' choicest-adored and most generally anthologised poem, Ode To Autumn, exploring both its depiction of the bounty of autumn and its forebodings of death. ThursdaySasha Dugdale discusses Keats’ Ode To A Nightingale. FridayPaul Batchelor explores what is in all probability the least accepted of Keats’ 1819 odes, Ode To Psyche SRB