Publishing History, Keats' Ode to a Nightingale
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"... Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours."
Benjamin Haydon, another friend of Keats was given a copy, he shared it with the editor of The Annals of Fine Arts and it was published in July's edition, earning Keats a small sum.
It made a second appearance in 1820 but this time in book-format along with Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems.
Sources
"Ode to a Nightingale." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 June 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_a_Nightingale>.
"Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats." EnglishHistory.net. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 June 2012. <http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/odetoanightingale.html>.
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