The Witch of Atlas : poem in ottava rima by Shelley.
... all the materials for one of those intangible harmonies of woven & luminous mist with which Shelley allures & baffles us. The personages & scenery are those of Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound & the Witch of Atlas. But Kalidasa's city in the mists is no evanescent city of sunlit clouds; it is his own beautiful & luxurious Ujjayini idealised & exempted from mortal affection; like a true Hindu he insists ...
... rainbow and the lightnings and ignorant of anything less brilliant and unearthly", Sri Aurobindo 3 contended in a letter: "Shelley was not only a poet of other worlds, of Epipsychidion and of The Witch of Atlas; he was passionately interested in bringing the light, beauty and truth of the ideal super-world from which he came into the earth life - he tried to find it there wherever he could, he tried ...
... the lyric and makes it a faultless whole. In this sequence the verses you condemn have an indefeasible right of place. Shelley was not only a poet of other worlds, of Epipsychidion and of The Witch of Atlas ; he was passionately interested in bringing the light, beauty and truth of the ideal super-world from which he came into the earth life—he tried to find it there wherever he could, he tried ...
... protest on account of it — it was in truth on rare occasions that he was vague and void: what was mistaken for indefiniteness was his delicate perception and imaginative subtlety or, as in The Witch of Atlas , his sometimes exclusive play with themes far from the human and the palpable. On the psychological side, the one grave discrepancy which vitiated all resemblan- Page 73 ...
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