Is Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn the first reference to truth and beauty together?
Whenever these two words, or worlds, are seem together, the name John Keats springs into mind. And this reference is so type cast in memory that one might not even think of any other source of enlightenment about the truth and beauty. Such is the appeal of the romantic poet that it seems as if all previous references have been wiped out of existence, as I believe there must be at least few. I believe this is partly because it is only Romantic Movement in literature that brought forth topics like these into common attention of common people, in proper poetic form. And until that happened, for centuries before, truth had been a subject to be regarded most reverently as a matter of religious claim and serious philosophical quest into the meaning and purpose of life, and beauty, on the other hand, as mainly feminine beauty, a concept perhaps more akin to sinfulness and temptation than it as a reality of natural beauty as in Wordsworth for instance, not an antithesis to human notions of cha
