greykit.poetry — #Romantic

• 1821 [percy-bysshe-shelley] Adonais
  Adonais

  Shelley's pastoral elegy for John Keats in 55 Spenserian stanzas — mourning the death of genius at the hands of hostile critics, tracing the mourning of Urania and Keats's fellow-poets, and arriving at the vision of Adonais absorbed into the eternal One, a star beaconing from the abode where the Eternal are.

  #elegy#Keats#pastoral#immortality#Romantic#1820s
• 1818 [lord-byron] Apostrophe to the Ocean
  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

  Seven Spenserian stanzas from the close of Canto IV — Byron's famous apostrophe to the sea as the one force man cannot despoil, the "image of Eternity," ending with the poet's declaration that he has loved the ocean since boyhood and lays his hand upon its mane.

  #ode#nature#ocean#Romantic#1810s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  Wordsworth's great ode on the fading of the visionary gleam — the sense, felt in childhood, of a celestial radiance on all things, and the poet's mature consolation in memory, sympathy, and "the soothing thoughts that spring / Out of human suffering.

  #ode#childhood#memory#immortality#Romantic#1800s