Many of us have done our fair share of searching for a definition of “Art”. Some more than others, some with more success than others.
This poem by John Keats is most famous for the following last two lines, generally considered to be linked with the writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
This is because the whole technique of allusion, and even short quotation, was fundamental to the neoclassicism in which both Reynolds and his readers had been educated.
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
