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A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever Until It's Not

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever Until It's Not

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Fredric Koeppel
Oct 02, 2012
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A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever Until It's Not
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness ...

When John Keats wrote these opening lines of "Endymion," he was thinking of the Platonic and transcendental beauty of nature, not a

bottle of wine, though he wrote some fine, brief descriptions of wine here and there in his body of work, notably in the s…

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