Celebrating the bicentenary of the great odes that assured John Keats of eternal fame

Keats’s 1819 odes explore the use of the imagination and the creative process to cope with the problems of time, change and the suffering and brevity of life

John Keats, by Joseph Severn

Taken together, John Keats’s six major odes, written 200 years ago this year, mark a highly significant moment in the history of English poetry and have become…