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• Mimesis
• Ode on a Grecian Urn

A poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in the January 1820. Like many of Keats's odes, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" discusses art and art's audience. He relied on depictions of natural music in earlier poems, and works such as "Ode to a Nightingale" appeal to auditory sensations while ignoring the visual.

• “Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!”

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.

With these parting words, this small story about one strange man becomes a statement about all of humanity.