Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”

This paper offers a new reading for Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” in the light of Freud’s theory of creative writing. According to Freud, fantasy is a defense mechanism people use to escape harsh reality. Creative people, like artists and writers, can bring this fantasy to the real world. The paper...

The International Journal of Arts Theory and History

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