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| Day 12 - John Keats  | Where his elder Wordsworth's Romantic persona took the form of the poet striding across the Lake District hills exulting in the sublimity of nature, John Keats' Romantic image is that of the pale artiste, swooning indoors at the intoxicating beauty of his beloved or transfixed by the ideal beauties realized in a work of art. | | "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Keats addresses his poem to the figures painted on an ancient Greek urn, always aware of the work of art's silence and eternity, its separation from time and life, and concludes with the famous statement of the value of beauty embodied in art: When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
| Library: Poems by John Keats
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