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Elective English—IV

Notes To Georgiana Augusta Wylie
To Haydon

To Homer
To Hope (1815)
To John Hamilton Reynolds
To Kosciusko (1816)

To My Brother George (epistle) (1816)
To My Brother George (sonnet) (1816)
To My Brothers (1816)
To one who has been long in city pent (1816)
To Sleep
To Solitude
To Some Ladies (1815)
To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown’d (1816 or 1817)
To the Nile
Two Sonnets on Fame
Unfelt, unheard, unseen (1817)
When I have fears that I may cease to be (1818) text
Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?
Where’s the Poet?
Why did I laugh tonight?
Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain (1815 or 1816)
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (1816)
Written on a Blank Space
Written on a Summer Evening

Written Upon the Top of Ben Nevis
Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison (1815)
You say you love; but with a voice (1817 or 1818)

Notes It’s hard to believe that Keats wrote six of the greatest English Romantic odes in a
period of 3-6 weeks. They were all written in the year 1819. Keats wrote poetry for a total
of about 6 years, he died when he was 25 – it’s almost too extraordinary to contemplate.
How did this young man, whose work, in his time, was highly criticized as “uncouth” and
“raw” ever write these wonderful poems? This is one of those six odes. ”Ode on a Grecian
Ode” is based on a series of paradoxes and opposites:

the discrepancy between the urn with its frozen images and the dynamic life
portrayed on the urn,
the human and changeable versus the immortal and permanent,

participation versus observation,
life versus art.

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