The Essay

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