Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

from The Essay · host BBC Radio 3

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." "O for a beaker full of the warm South....." Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.4. Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a NightingaleProducer; Beaty Rubens

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