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Questions related to the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) and his work.

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Is this line from Shelley’s A Lament an allusion to his Skylark?

It would be strange to interpret “a joy has taken flight” as referring to the skylark, because the two poems employ different senses of “flight”. In ‘To a Skylark’, it is the noun form of the verb “fl …
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On what occasion did Shelley say "Keats was a Greek"?

The earliest version of this story appears in A New Spirit of the Age by Richard H. Horne (1844), page 196: When somebody expressed his surprise to Shelley, that Keats, who was not very conversant …
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Meaning of “All spirits are enslaved that serve things evil” in "Prometheus Unbound"

Yes, your interpretation is correct. The line contains a couple of anastrophes, “figures of speech in which words or clauses in a sentence are inverted” (OED). In conventional order the line would be: …
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How do we know that Shelley's "Adonais" refers to Byron and Moore?

In his answer, Peter Shor has set out the wording in the text of Adonais that suggests the identification of the mourners. But we don’t have to rely only on the text: there is also the epitext, the “t …
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