![]() ![]() Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song and one morning he took his chair from breakfast-table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours. In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. ![]() ‘I observed that every short poem, which he was tempted to compose, was scrawled on the first piece of paper at hand, and that it was afterwards used a mark to a book, or thrust anywhere aside. Brown’s Life of John Keats - first delivered as a lecture at the Plymouth Athenaeum nearly sixteen years after the poet’s death and not published until 1937 – contains the following memorable account: The story of its composition is told by Charles Armitage Brown (1787-1842), with whom Keats was living in Wentworth Place, Hampstead in the spring of 1819. This manuscript contains the original draft of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, the only copy in Keats’s own handwriting to survive. ![]()
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