Little Masterpieces of English Poetry, Vol. 4: Odes, Sonnets, and Epigrams (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Little Masterpieces of English Poetry, Vol. 4: Odes, Sonnets, and Epigrams

A second division of the subject remains to be treated. Shelley's most famous odes are not the ode To Liberty and To Venice. They are To a Skylark and the Ode to the West Wind. In the first two he has written English odes in the approved form. In the second two the lyrical ode has made its most lyrical manifestation. They are, however, examples of the ode in regu lar stanzas which has been present in our poetry from the beginning. Keats, for example, seems to occupy a beautiful middle ground. His dig nity and enthusiasm, his classic regularity of metre and evenness of line, give just the impres sion of the best English odes. It is the same end achieved by a different means. We have therefore included lyrical odes as well as pure odes in this collection.

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