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, 05:12, September 28, 2019grammar - revised "What can be possibly be misleading" to "What could possibly be misleading"
:"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" wrote the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] poet [[John Keats]] in "Ode on a Grecian Urn." That famous citation, which expresses 19th-century Romanticism's trust in feeling over reason, is pertinent in the case of Anne Carson's newest volume...<ref>Berstein, Richard (2001), "Books of the Times: Beauty is Truth, and Sometimes Betrayal," February 14, 2001, p. E1</ref>
:"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" wrote the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] poet [[John Keats]] in "Ode on a Grecian Urn." That famous citation, which expresses 19th-century Romanticism's trust in feeling over reason, is pertinent in the case of Anne Carson's newest volume...<ref>Berstein, Richard (2001), "Books of the Times: Beauty is Truth, and Sometimes Betrayal," February 14, 2001, p. E1</ref>
What can be possibly be misleading in this [[reviewer]]'s quotation of what is probably the most famous line Keats ever wrote? The missing context here is an additional set of quotation marks. The actual closing lines of the poem are:
What could possibly be misleading in this [[reviewer]]'s quotation of what is probably the most famous line Keats ever wrote? The missing context here is an additional set of quotation marks. The actual closing lines of the poem are:
When old age shall this generation waste,<br>
When old age shall this generation waste,<br>