Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn
Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats's Ode to Autumn, exploring both its depiction of the bounty of autumn and its forebodings of death.
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....." . Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.
3. Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats' best-loved and most frequently anthologised poem, Ode to Autumn, exploring both its depiction of the bounty of autumn and its forebodings of death.
Producer : Beaty Rubens
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- Wed 9 Jan 201922:45BBC Radio 3
- Wed 30 Sep 202022:45BBC Radio 3
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