Alastor : or The Spirit of Solitude a poem by P.B. Shelley
... . It was his inspiration that made his facility bear fruit — he wrote easily enough when he fell in love with Harriet Westbrook but no poet of his young age wrote more wretchedly. Nothing before "Alastor" is of any value: one has only to read his ludicrous juvenilia to wonder how so weak and unoriginal a versifier could almost at a leap become a feeder on honey-dew and a drinker of paradisal milk ...
... poetic vision, he had too splendid and opulent an imagination, too great a gift of flowing and yet uplifted and inspired speech for such descents, and even in his earlier immature poetry, Queen Mab, Alastor, The Revolt of Islam , these powers are there and sustain him, but still the first form of his diction is a high, sometimes a magnificent poetic eloquence, which sometimes enforces the effect of what ...
... races which deals sovereignly with life within the limits of the intellect and the inspired reason" . 22 This occurs in the more elevated Wordsworthian passages as well as in parts of Shelley's Alastor, Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais and of his fragment, The Triumph of Life; also in sections of Keats's Hyperion, here and there in the famous Odes and almost wholly in the fragment ...
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