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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
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(1820) Poem by *Keats, envying the unchanging bliss of the scene on a Greek vase, in which a youth plays the pipes to his loved one ('For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair'). It is the vase itself which speaks the much quoted and much debated final couplet, addressed to living human beings as they waste into old age: Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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