Lessons from a Grecian Urn

Returning to Timelessness

“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…