Why did john keats write so many odes?
John Keats wrote during the late Romantic Period of English Literature and the Ode was a very popular form of poem. It is mainly the Odes that make it into the literary cannon, and that especially make it into anthologies and high school textbooks. William Wordsworth, William Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelly, and many other Romantic Period poets also wrote Odes. Ode to a Nightingale and Ode to a Grecian Urn are two of the most famous of Keats’ poems and both of them happen to be Odes, but he did write other types of poems as well, tons of them in fact.
