In particular, the lines are reminiscent of the description of inspiration and the muse within Wordsworth's The Recluse.
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Dissatisfied, he turned to Apuleius's Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington in 1566, and read through the earlier version of the Cupid and Psyche myth.
Cupid and Psyche | Ode to Joy | Psyche | Ode | ode | Psyché | Ode to Billie Joe | Ode to a Nightingale | Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867 | Psyche (psychology) | Psyché (poem) | Psyché (play) | Psyche (band) | psyche | Ode to Joy (from Beethoven's 9th) | Ode (poem) | ODE | Erik Ode | Cupid and Psyche (Burne-Jones painting) | Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche | psyche (psychology) | Psyche (mythology) | Psyche (mortal) | Psyche | Ogboju ode ninu igbo olodumare | Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀ | Ode to the West Wind | Ode to the Ghetto | Ode to the Confederate Dead | Ode to Psyche |
He may have written the ode as early as March, but the themes and stanza forms suggest May or June 1819; when it is known he was working on "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode to Psyche".