Sidney Colvin , in his 1917 biography on Keats , grouped " Indolence " with the other 1819 odes in categorizing Keats 's " class of achievements " . In 1948 , Lord Gorell described the fifth stanza as , " lacking the magic of what the world agree are the great Odes " but describe the language as " [ d ] elicate , charming even " . Later , in a 1968 biography of Keats , Gittings describe the importance of the poem : " The whole ode , in fact , have a borrowed air , and he acknowledged its lack of success by not printing it with the others ... Yet with its acceptance of the numb , dull and indolent mood as something creative , it set the scene for all the odes that followed . "