ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Keats (1795-1821) composed his sensuous ode ‘To Autumn’ in September 1819. He was inspired by his daily walks in and around Winchester.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Keats (1795-1821) composed his sensuous ode ‘To Autumn’ in September 1819. He was inspired by his daily walks in and around Winchester.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1819 John Keats wrote five of his most famous “odes.” These odes included “Ode on a Grecian Urn, ” “Ode on Indolence, ” “Ode on Melancholy, ” “Ode to a Nightingale, ” and “Ode to Psyche.” Critics cite these poems as some of Keats’ best work.

Detailed explanation-4: -“To Autumn” is an ode-a celebratory address to a person, place or thing. Think of something commonplace that you experience everyday and write an ode commemorating some aspect or quality of it.

Detailed explanation-5: -On September 19, 1819, John Keats, while lodging in Winchester, the old West Saxon capital of England, wrote his famous ‘Ode to Autumn’, perhaps the most anthologised of poems.