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
Within that year Keats turned out, among other poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Ode to Autumn, the Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn.
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
What is the essence of Keats's poetical creed, as expressed in the "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William Joseph Long
As Keats wrote in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter.”
From Economist ● Jun. 23, 2016
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