 | American periodicals - 1882 - 866 pages
...compassion for poor Keats, I wish it to be so." And again: "I am especially curious to hear the fate of Adonais. I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to immortality of oblivion." He also thought well of the " Prometheus Unbound," though he did not expect... | |
 | John Keats - Poets, English - 1883 - 516 pages
...wrote again to Mr. Oilier (Sfielley Memorials, page 160) — " I am especially curious to hear the fate of Adonais. I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." It was not until the 29th of November 1821 that the letter to Severn was written to accompany that... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 474 pages
...still more absurd to pretend that the verses are bad " :— " I am especially curious to hear the fate of Adonais ; I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." P. 381" Here pause. These graves are all too young as yet To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English drama - 1886 - 152 pages
...the notes, you are at liberty to suppress them ; the poem contains nothing of a tendency to danger. " Within a few days I may have to write to you on a...present request into immediate effect. " Dear Sir, &c. " . . . . The Ode to Napoleon to print at the end." (Shelley Memorials, 1859, p. 160.) The second... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1886 - 70 pages
...1821,' — he writes : — " Do not forget my other questions. I am especially curious to hear the fate of Adonais. I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." l Such is the history of Shelley's masterpiece, so far as the facts connected with its production are... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Authors, English - 1890 - 488 pages
...produced the polished, stately, mournful " Adonais." It was a favorite 'with its author, who said, " I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." Swinburne says, "There are, in the English language, three elegiac poems so great that they eclipse... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - History - 1892 - 344 pages
...to danger. Do not forget my other questions. I am especially curious to hear the fate oP'Adonais." I confess I should be surprised if that poem were...carrying my present request into immediate effect. CIX. TO JOSEPH SEVERN.i PISA, November 29, 1821 DEAR SIR, — I send you the elegy on poor Keats, and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 564 pages
...the notes, you are at liberty to suppress them ; the poem contains nothing of a tendency to danger. " Within a few days I may have to write to you on a...carrying my present request into immediate effect. ..." The Ode to Napoleon to print at the end." Shelley Memorials, p. 160. Shelley (from Pisa) to John... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...the notes, you are at liberty to suppress them ; the poem contains nothing of a tendency to danger. " Within a few days I may have to write to you on a...carrying my present request into immediate effect. ..." The Ode to Napoleon to print at the end." Shelley Memorials, p. 160. fewer mistakes than any poem... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 342 pages
...Oilier, November 11, 1821 : " Do not forget my other questions. I am especially curious to hear the fate of Adonais. I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." Shelley Memorials, p. 160. Shelley (from Pisa) to Severn, November 29, 1821 : " I send you the Elegy... | |
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Do not forget my other questions. I am especially curious to hear the fate of " Adonais." I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion. 
