Composed around 1819, “Bright Star” is John Keats’s iconic sonnet addressed to a celestial object—an emblem of unchanging permanence. The speaker wishes he could remain a⋯ Read the full article

John Keats’s “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” first published in 1819, is a haunting ballad that portrays a knight bewitched by a mysterious, otherworldly woman. Told mostly t⋯ Read the full article

“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” published in 1816, is among John Keats’s most famous sonnets. It captures the poet’s exhilaration upon reading Homer’s epics as r⋯ Read the full article

John Keats’s “To Autumn,” composed in 1819, paints a vivid, affectionate portrait of the season as a time of both abundance and quiet transition. Split into three stanzas⋯ Read the full article

Composed in 1819, “Ode to Psyche” is often cited as the first of John Keats’s renowned odes, introducing themes and techniques he would develop more fully in subsequent w⋯ Read the full article

John Keats composed “Ode on Indolence” in 1819, around the same period as his other major odes. While many of Keats’s odes focus on beauty, art, and emotional intensity, ⋯ Read the full article

Published in 1819, “Ode on Melancholy” is one of John Keats’s great odes, offering a nuanced exploration of the relationship between sorrow and beauty. Keats begins by wa⋯ Read the full article

John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” first published in 1819, explores the interplay of mortal suffering and the seemingly transcendent beauty of the nightingale’s song. ⋯ Read the full article

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” published in 1820, stands as one of the most revered poems of the English Romantic tradition. Composed in five stanzas, this ode addr⋯ Read the full article

In “The Indian Serenade,” Percy Bysshe Shelley offers a brief but intensely passionate poem that captures the essence of nocturnal longing and idealized love. Told from t⋯ Read the full article

Composed around 1819 and published in 1839 (posthumously, in some collections), “Song to the Men of England” is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s impassioned address to the laboring⋯ Read the full article

In “A Lament,” Percy Bysshe Shelley expresses a profound sense of nostalgia and grief over the passage of time. The speaker addresses the world and life itself, lamenting⋯ Read the full article

“Music When Soft Voices Die” (sometimes titled “To —,” depending on the edition) is a short, lyrical meditation on how beauty and love persist through memory even when th⋯ Read the full article

In “Love’s Philosophy,” Percy Bysshe Shelley uses examples from nature to argue that human affection should follow the same harmonious, intermingling principles found thr⋯ Read the full article

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (published in 1817) presents an ode to the mysterious, invisible force that imbues human life with moments of heighte⋯ Read the full article