My favorite poet is John Keats, 1795 - 1821.

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Tender Is The Night and the “Ode to a Nightingale”
by William E. Doherty

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"Critics often express a feeling that there is something mysterious about Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night, that there is something unsatisfying in the analyses we have had—a discomfort one does not feel with the more elaborately structured The Great Gatsby, or with the intriguing, unfinished The Last Tycoon. Searching the critical opinion on Tender Is The Night—this “magnificent failure” —one is likely to feel that something is missing; one seems to have, as Maxwell Geismar says, “the curious impression at times that the novel is really about something else altogether.”(Maxwell Geismar, The Last of the Provincial, (Cambridge, Mass. 1947), p. 333.)

It seems strange that the relationship between the novel and Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” which supplied Fitzgerald with both title and epigraph, should have received no more than passing attention from the critics. The epigraph reads:"

Already with thee! tender is the night,
…
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

"We know that Fitzgerald had a lifelong and deep response to Keats: “for awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.” The “Ode to a Nightingale” was especially important to him; he found it unbearably beautiful, confessed he read it always with tears in his eyes (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-up (New York, 1956), 298.)"

Read more;  https://fitzgerald.narod.ru/critics-eng/doherty-ode.html

Greatest poets of all time.

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Robert Frost

1874–1963

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Emily Dickinson

1830–1886

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William Shakespeare

1564–1616

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Maya Angelou

1928–2014

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Walt Whitman

1819–1892

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Sylvia Plath

1932–1963

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William Butler Yeats

1865–1939

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Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849

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John Keats

1795 - 1821

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