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Like many of Keats's odes, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" discusses art and art's audience. He relied on depictions of natural music in earlier poems, and works such as "Ode to a Nightingale" appeal to auditory sensations while ignoring the visual. Keats reverses this when describing an urn within "Ode on a Grecian Urn" to focus on representational art ...
[30] Charles Patterson argued the relationship of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" as the greatest 1819 ode of Keats: "The meaningfulness and range of the poem, along with its controlled execution and powerfully suggestive imagery, entitle it to a high place among Keats's great odes. It lacks the even finish and extreme perfection of "To Autumn" but is ...
Nederlands: John Keats: Ode on a Grecian urn. Overgeschreven door George Keats, 1820. Overgeschreven door George Keats, 1820. English: John Keats: Ode on a Grecian urn.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode on Melancholy" were inspired by sonnet forms and probably written after "Ode to a Nightingale". [3] Keats's new and progressive publishers Taylor and Hessey issued Endymion, which Keats dedicated to Thomas Chatterton, a work that he termed "a trial of my Powers of Imagination". [3]
A major poem of the English Romantics – "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats – provides an example of the artistic potential of ekphrasis. The entire poem is a description of a piece of pottery that the narrator finds evocative.
Keats was aware of other works on classical Greek art, and had first-hand exposure to the Elgin Marbles, all of which reinforced his belief that classical Greek art was idealistic and captured Greek virtues, which forms the basis of the poem. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" was not well received by contemporary critics.
Ode to Apollo (1815) Robin Hood (To a Friend) (1818) Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (1818) Ode to Maia (1818) Bards of Passion and of Mirth (1818) Ode to Fanny (1819) 1819 odes: Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Indolence; Ode on Melancholy; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Psyche; To Autumn
Between April 21 and the end of May Keats writes La Belle Dame sans Merci and most of his major odes: Ode to Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Indolence and Ode on Melancholy. In the summer he writes Lamia; on September 19 he writes his ode To Autumn at Winchester; [2] and on October 19 proposes marriage to Fanny.