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
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The film bears about the same relation to ordinary travelogues that Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn bears to a cheap pottery catalogue.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ode on a Grecian Urn is of a different type.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
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