Keats' Urn.

A copy Keats made of an engraving of the Sosibios Vase, which he traced from an engraving of this vase found in Henry Moses's A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, circa 1819. The drawing obviously bears on his Ode on a Grecian Urn, witten about this time. He knew the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, which are the subject of his sonnet "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles". Keats had also seen the Townley, Borghese, and Holland House vases. Shakespeare also responded to images of the Greek pastoral in As You Like It and The Winter's Tale. Critics have often noted how Shakespeare anticipates Keats' sense of art's immortality in his Sonnets, such as 18 and 55. Courtesy Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.