John Keats admired beauty. Otherwise he could not have written the poem ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. The poem narrates the story of a knight in the middle ages who met a beautiful woman in some wilderness. She, the beauty, allowed him to take her on his horseback to some places as he wished until finally she took him to her cave and lulled him to sleep. When the knight woke up, the beauty had disappeared. He went in search of that beauty all over the valley. Keats’ poem ends with the statement that the knight is still searching for the beautiful woman in that valley years and years after she deserted him. You would think he was a ghost in case you met him there in that valley. Seekers of beauty became ghosts in Keats’ era (early 19th century) But Keats belonged to an era when people, at least some people, quested after truth which they thought was beauty. “Beauty is truth and truth beauty.” Didn’t Keats write that too? And you don’t need to know anything more than
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