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Cover: 9788028375096 | Ode on a Grecian Urn | John Keats | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2024
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
A Romantic Meditation on Beauty, Truth, Art, and Mortality in Classical Imagery
Taschenbuch von John Keats
Sprache: Englisch

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is one of the supreme achievements of English Romantic poetry, a meditative lyric in which John Keats contemplates an ancient vase decorated with scenes of music, pursuit, sacrifice, and festivity. Through sensuous imagery, balanced stanzaic form, and philosophical ambiguity, the poem explores the tension between art and life, permanence and transience, desire and fulfillment. Its famous conclusion-linking beauty and truth-remains deliberately enigmatic, placing the ode at the center of Romantic debates about imagination, mortality, and aesthetic knowledge. John Keats, born in 1795, wrote the poem during his extraordinary creative year of 1819, when illness, financial uncertainty, and personal longing sharpened his awareness of human fragility. Trained first in medicine but devoted to poetry, Keats developed a style marked by rich diction, classical allusion, and what he called "negative capability": the capacity to remain within uncertainty without forcing resolution. These concerns profoundly shape the urn's silent, enduring world. Readers seeking poetry that rewards close attention will find this ode indispensable. It is brief, but intellectually expansive: a work to reread for its music, its images, and its haunting meditation on what art preserves-and what life alone can feel.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is one of the supreme achievements of English Romantic poetry, a meditative lyric in which John Keats contemplates an ancient vase decorated with scenes of music, pursuit, sacrifice, and festivity. Through sensuous imagery, balanced stanzaic form, and philosophical ambiguity, the poem explores the tension between art and life, permanence and transience, desire and fulfillment. Its famous conclusion-linking beauty and truth-remains deliberately enigmatic, placing the ode at the center of Romantic debates about imagination, mortality, and aesthetic knowledge. John Keats, born in 1795, wrote the poem during his extraordinary creative year of 1819, when illness, financial uncertainty, and personal longing sharpened his awareness of human fragility. Trained first in medicine but devoted to poetry, Keats developed a style marked by rich diction, classical allusion, and what he called "negative capability": the capacity to remain within uncertainty without forcing resolution. These concerns profoundly shape the urn's silent, enduring world. Readers seeking poetry that rewards close attention will find this ode indispensable. It is brief, but intellectually expansive: a work to reread for its music, its images, and its haunting meditation on what art preserves-and what life alone can feel.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028375096
ISBN-10: 802837509X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Keats, John
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: John Keats
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,438 kg
Artikel-ID: 129277484
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