#adonais

[lavenderheroine]

Devoured by ghostly shapes of life He slips from ties of dust To be the world we dream he lives

[rambleonwithrosie]

FMK - Romantic Poets Edition

Fuck Byron, Marry Shelley, Kill Keats

Fuck Shelley, Marry Byron, Kill Keats

Fuck Keats, Marry Shelley, Kill Byron

Fuck Shelley, Marry Keats, Kill Byron

Fuck Byron, Marry Keats, Kill Shelley

Fuck Keats, Marry Byron, Kill Shelley

Voting ended onApr 5, 2024

[betokeneth]

Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (1821)

[a-night-like--this]

open your eyes and be with me

[flowerytale]

Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

[blackhyena]

Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Adonais’.

[thequietabsolute]

It isn't mysticism. Goethe simply wouldn't stop at the boundaries drawn by the inductive method. He let his imagination pass over into objects. An artist sometimes tries to see how close he can come to being a river or a star, playing at becoming one or the other entering into the forms of the phenomena painted or described. Someone has even written of an astronomer keeping droves of stars, the cattle of his mind, in the meadows of space.

… The imaginative soul works in that way, and why should poetry refuse to be knowledge? For Shelley, Adonais in death became part of the loveliness he had made more lovely. So according to Goethe the blue of the sky was the theory. There was a thought in blue. The blue became blue when human vision received it. A wonderful man like my late friend Humboldt was overawed by rational orthodoxy, and because he was a poet this probably cost him his life. Isn't it enough to be a poor naked forked creature without also being a poor naked forked spirit? Must the imagination be asked to give up its own full and free connection with the universe — the universe as Goethe spoke of it? As the living garment of God?

— Saul Bellow, from Humboldt’s Gift

page 362.

[arsanimarum]

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais