[lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

  • From: Eric <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:59:33 -0500

>>Who said "Beauty is Truth, and Truth is Beauty"?
In the Keats, it's actually the Urn who says this to the poetic narrator. An object out of time, like an artifact from Yeats's Byzantium or like a gravestone in Gray's Elegy. Perhaps one of those tombstone markers translated in _The Greek Anthology_. Inanimate advice. Suspect. Detached. Ever-resounding. Distant. Perhaps not to be trusted. Perhaps fraught with the wisdom of ages. 
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