Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 11 p.m.

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....." "O for a beaker full of the warm South....."

Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.

4. Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

Producer; Beaty Rubens