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Lessons from a Grecian Urn

Lessons from a Grecian Urn

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David Gosselin
Aug 12, 2021
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Lessons from a Grecian Urn
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“Poetry… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

— John Keats

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” is one of the most celebrated and well-known poems of the English language, and rightly so. However, it is arguably also one of the least understood—and rarely well-performed.

Unfortunately, the advent of twentie…

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