Ode Calendars

2 creative works found

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  The Keats Walk in Winchester
  by Philip Mitchell

  On Tuesday 21 September 1819, while staying in Winchester, John Keats wrote to his brother George: “Now the time is beautiful. I take a walk every day for an hour before dinner and this is generally my walk – I go out at the back gate across one street, into the Cathedral yard, which is always interesting; then I pass under the trees along a paved path, pass the beautiful front of the Cathedral, turn to the left under a stone door way – then I am on the other side of the building – which leaving behind me I pass on through two college-like squares seemingly built for the dwelling place of Deans and Prebendaries – garnished with grass and shaded with trees. Then I pass through one of the old city gates and then you are in one College-Street through which I pass and at the end thereof crossing some meadows and at last a country alley of gardens I arrive, that is, my worship arrives at the foundation of Saint Cross, which is a very interesting old place, both for its gothic tower and alms-square and for the appropriation of its rich rents to a relation of the Bishop of Winchester – Then I pass across St Cross meadows till you come to the most beautifully clear river – now this is only one mile of my walk I will spare you the other two till after supper when they would do you more good.” Elsewhere he wrote: “How beautiful the season is now. This struck me so much in my Sunday’s walk that I composed upon it.” The work to which he was referring is his Ode to Autumn, twice voted among Britain’s top ten poems and certainly one of his best-loved. The images in this calendar mostly follow the description of that daily walk which gave the young poet such solace and inspiration. It is not known, however where he was staying, so the first view is of the cathedral’s tower, which would have risen above and behind so many views of the city in 1819, just as it does today. All the other historic buildings featured here were also standing then, though perhaps not looking exactly as they do in the early 21st century.

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  Ode To Christmas Time
  by Light-Rain

  A collection of 2008 Christmas at Crown Casino,Melbourne