 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 472 pages
...same time, recognizing in "Adonais" a poetical master-work, Shelley wrote as follows (Nov. 11, 1821), "I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." In accordance with this anticipation, the beautiful Elegy written by Shelley to the memory of Keats,... | |
 | American fiction - 1928 - 556 pages
...for all "the inheritors of unfulfilled renown". "I confess," wrote Shelley to his publisher Oilier, "I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." The style also of this ample biography leaves much to be desired. Mr. JC Squire, writing in the London... | |
 | 1894 - 706 pages
...Adonais, in spite of its mysticism," he writes to Ollier, " is the least imperfect of my compositions." " I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." " It is a highly wrought piece of art, and perhaps better, in point of composition, than anything I... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 632 pages
...of a tendency to clanger. Do not forget my other questions. I am especially curious to hear the fate of " Adonais." I confess I should be surprised if...you the propriety of giving a speedy answer to Mrs. S[helley]'s proposal. Her volumes are now ready for the press. The " Ode to Napoleon " to print at... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 604 pages
...of a tendency to danger. Do not forget my other questions. I am especially curious to hear the fate of " Adonais." I confess I should be surprised if...you the propriety of giving a speedy answer to Mrs. S[helley]'s proposal. Her volumes are now ready for the press. The " Ode to Napoleon " to print at... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1909 - 348 pages
...wish it to be himself. This diffidence passed away, and a few months later he wrote with just pride, " I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." At the beginning of August Shelley went to see Byron at Ravenna, who, under the influence of the Countess... | |
 | Helen Rossetti Angeli - British - 1911 - 416 pages
...composition, than anything I have written " he describes it. To Oilier he wrote in November, 1821 : "I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." CHAPTER XX BAGNI DI PISA — JOURNEYS TO FLORENCE AND RAVENNA — RENEWED INTERCOURSE WITH BYRON —... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1901 - 712 pages
...on a different plane, and wrote to Oilier, ' I am especially curious to hear the fate of Adonais. 1 confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion ; ' and, shortly after this, to Hunt, — ' Pray tell me what effect was produced by Adonais. My faculties... | |
 | North American review - 1916 - 1008 pages
...and admired the dead poet, is, of course, supremely told in the Adonais, of which he himself said, "I confess I should be surprised if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." This letter to the Hunts is as follows: Marlow, March 18th, 1817. My dear Friend : We have not received... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 828 pages
...the least imperfect of my compositions" ; that it was "a highly wrought piece of art" ; and that he should be surprised "if that poem were born to an immortality of oblivion." But Adonais was ignored by the contemporary public ; only posterity has placed it among the supreme... | |
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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. 
