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Article: Poetry Of John Keats: 'Ode To Psyche,' Introduction
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Keats, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
"Ode To Psyche," Introduction:
This great secular hymn, with its long irregular stanzas - developed at
least in part out of the sonnet form - was the first of Keats' famous odes to
be written in the spring of 1819. The poet labored long and hard over it, or
so he declared in a letter to his brother and sister-in-law, George and
Georgina, with which he enclosed a draft of the poem. "The following Poem," he
wrote, "-the last I have written is the first and the only one with which I
have taken even moderate pains-I have for the most part dash'd of[f] my lines
in a hurry-This I have done leisurely-I think it reads the more richly for it
and will I hope ...
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