Ode on a Grecian Urn Flashcards
Quality of the truth of art (letter)
‘its intensity is capable of making all disagreeable evaporate, from their being in close relationship with Beauty and Truth - Examine King Lear and you will find this exemplified throughout.’
Beauty (letter)
‘What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not - for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty.’
Although Keats was not a particularly religious man, his meditation on the problem of happiness and its brief duration in the course of writing “Ode on a Grecian Urn” brought him a glimpse of heaven, a state of existence which his letters show he did think about. In his letter of November 22, 1817, to Benjamin Bailey, he mentioned…
“another favourite Speculation of mine, that we shall enjoy ourselves here after by having what we called happiness on Earth repeated in a finer tone and so repeated.”
What journal was this poem first published in?
‘Annals of the Fine Arts’
