"Keats's Odes of May 1819 articulate a Profoundly Divided Self." ... The poetry of John Keats articulates an astonishing literary liturgy, which has influenced much of the study of nineteenth century literature; though during his short lifetime he was deemed to be a "lower class cockney," and an ignorant, unsettled "pretender" to a higher culture. ... The Odes, Ode To Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on Indolence and To Autumn were written in a period of around two weeks in May 1819. ... These works, although they have been subjected to much criti...

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