By Ron Rosenbaum 10/11/99 12:00am

Keats and the Supermodels: The Truth About Beauty

Is Truth Beauty? Is Beauty Truth? Sometimes it’s useful to be reminded that what passes for eternal wisdom may not have the unshakable foundation that mere rote repetition has endowed it with.

Consider the equation of Truth and Beauty that appears in John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” for instance. A thought-provoking essay by Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 10/27/97 12:00am

An Ode to Helen Vendler: Goddess of Keats’ ‘Autumn’

The brilliant critic Christopher Ricks, the Oxbridge-bred interpreter of both T.S. Eliot and Bob Dylan, is perhaps best known for his earlier work on John Keats, the one with the peculiar title Keats and Embarrassment . A work inspired in part by the profusion of blushing in Keats’ poetry. And embarrassment, I blush to say, Read More