Ode on a Grecian Urn
noun
a poem (1819) by Keats.
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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”(1819) A poem by John Keats. It contains the famous lines “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ — that is all / Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”
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A famous expression of this proposition is the finale of John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2018
And what is John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" if not a work of criticism about the experience of art?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2016
Her favorite word was "superb," which she applied equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he will most probably be best remembered by his marvellous odes, such as the Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, and others.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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