Nineteenth century

John Keats

1795–1821

Poet of the odes

Beauty is truth belongs to an urn, and then to the poem’s last clause, which may be the urn speaking. He asked for his name to be writ in water. Friends put a longer sentence on the stone in Rome.

In the canon

  1. Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.Ode on a Grecian Urn
  2. Here lies one whose name was writ in water.His epitaph

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