Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend ...

So was Keats. In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” the Romantic poet speaks to the classical scenes he imagines carved on ancient pottery. Keats is enthralled by how the art renders its stories immortal ...

In his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" — which many of us perhaps first encountered in high school English class — John Keats asks readers to contemplate a different conception of time.

Alice Oswald brings together her unique blend of poetic sensibility, classical scholarship and personal impressions as she explores Keats's great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn. Show more 1819 was a ...

the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is worth any number of old ladies.” It is an attitude shared by all who have discovered just how difficult it is to write one superlative poem and what bitter ...

I read John Keats’ Ode On A Grecian Urn in school and grasped a little of this romantic longing for immortal beauty. But it was a lofty and high-minded poem and it didn’t really let me in.