Talk:Ode on Indolence

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 Background Of The Ode:

 This ode was written in spring of 1819 (between mid-March and early June) during his most productive years, being one in his great sequence of odes.  Tom Keats died in December 1818, just before it was written, following John’s move to Hampstead.  In 1819, agitation for social reform grew. The government's response to the agitation was repression, and in 1819 at Peterloo, near Manchester, protests were answered by armed force, resulting in several dead and hundreds injured.  In the letter to George and Georgiana (written on 19th March, 1819), Keats described his indolence: 'This is the only happiness; and is a rare instance of advantage in the body overpowering the Mind.'  On 9th June, he told Miss Jeffrey that 'the thing I have most enjoyed this year has been writing an ode to Indolence'.  The ode was first published in 1848.