Ode To A Nightingale was written by which poet?

• A. William Wordsworth
• B. John Keats
• C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer: (B)

John Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale. This poem is one of his famous odes from 1819, steeped in lush, sensuous imagery and a meditation on beauty, fleeting human life, and the desire to escape pain through art and imagination. Keats’s work in these odes centers on the immediacy of sensory experience and the tension between mortal reality and the nightingale’s timeless song.

The other poets listed were also key Romantic figures, but their signatures differ. Wordsworth often emphasizes simple nature and memory, Coleridge is known for dreamlike, mythic storytelling, and Shelley for grand, often radical themes. The distinctive focus on the nightingale’s song and Keats’s lush, intimate lyric voice identifies this poem with him.