This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... the poet Shelley, and more of the man Shelley, than in any other of his works; and the result is that Adonais is the finest elegy and one of the best poems in literature. Here we witness what lightnings can flash from the love-enkindled soul of a great poet. While writing the elegy of Keats, Shelley wrote ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... the poet Shelley, and more of the man Shelley, than in any other of his works; and the result is that Adonais is the finest elegy and one of the best poems in literature. Here we witness what lightnings can flash from the love-enkindled soul of a great poet. While writing the elegy of Keats, Shelley wrote that of himself, and this half-conscious aim deepened the beauty and the pathos of this transcendent poem. The four stanzas which directly relate to himself give the most brilliant and the most affecting portrait that was ever self-drawn: --" A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift, --Who in another's fate now wept his own." Who can read the sudden conclusion of this most touching, most tender, and most vivid portrait, without a thrill of awe? In writing " Adonais," Shelley's best feelings, admiration of the admirable, poetic, and with it, personal sympathy for his great young rival, generous devotion, rightful wrath, were all keenly enlisted, and by the warmth of the occasion, and by the extraordinary demands made on him to celebrate a poet so unique, were fused into a glow, which, by the rare cunning of his hand, was fluently moulded into those pliant lustrous forms which only shape themselves in the sun of the most genial sense of the beautiful. Throughout all the fifty-five Spencerian stanzas there is the most easy and graceful and close and rapid interbraiding of emotion and thought. The poet is in his best mood. The personality of the theme, with his own affections and sorrows, hold his imagination closely to its duty. His cloud-cleaving tendency is controlled to concentrate the whole roused man upon the beloved theme. Through the action of his wrought faculties he exerts, with a copiousness even more lavish than elsewhere, the poetic power...
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