英语词汇ode on a grecian urn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time . . . No one would argue that Keats’s poem isn’t among the most beautiful and best known of all time, but the vase that he wrote about might be called kitsch today. The story begins with the great English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95), who achieved his fame despite the fact that a childhood illness had caused the amputation of his right leg, barring him from using the potter’s wheel. Wedgwood, the grandfather of Charles Dickens, was already renowned as a potter when he began to make the ubiquitous blue and white vases that still bear his name. These he copied from the famous “Grecian” Portland vase that Sir William Hamilton, husband of Lord Nelson’s great love, Emma, purchased when he served as ambassador to Na- ples, and sold to the Duchess of Portland, for whom it is named, before she donated it to the British Museum in 1784. The Port- land vase, however, wasn’t a Greek vase as everybody thought, but a Roman imitation from the time of Augustus. The vase that John Keats saw and that inspired him to write his poem was probably a Wedgwood copy of a Roman copy of a Greek vase—a doubly fake Grecian urn:

词汇	ode on a grecian urn
词源	ode on a Grecian urn. Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time . . . No one would argue that Keats’s poem isn’t among the most beautiful and best known of all time, but the vase that he wrote about might be called kitsch today. The story begins with the great English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95), who achieved his fame despite the fact that a childhood illness had caused the amputation of his right leg, barring him from using the potter’s wheel. Wedgwood, the grandfather of Charles Dickens, was already renowned as a potter when he began to make the ubiquitous blue and white vases that still bear his name. These he copied from the famous “Grecian” Portland vase that Sir William Hamilton, husband of Lord Nelson’s great love, Emma, purchased when he served as ambassador to Na- ples, and sold to the Duchess of Portland, for whom it is named, before she donated it to the British Museum in 1784. The Port- land vase, however, wasn’t a Greek vase as everybody thought, but a Roman imitation from the time of Augustus. The vase that John Keats saw and that inspired him to write his poem was probably a Wedgwood copy of a Roman copy of a Greek vase—a doubly fake Grecian urn: Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
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