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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley
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From the Great Poets series--exquisite small-format collections of classic poetry enhanced by full-color reproductions of period art, and readable, scholarly introductions. 12 full-color illustrations.
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"No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure."

- Prometheus Unbound

I wonder whether it will be relevant to bear in mind Mary Shelley's subtitle to Frankenstein: "The Modern Prometheus", while reading PBS's verse drama?

Painting: Gustave Moreau

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"Grief returns with the revolving year."
- Adonais

I'm finding Shelley's elegy for Keats, "Adonais", slow going only because it is so wonderful and I keep having to re-read passages to let his words and meaning sink in.
My work with bereaved people has had added poignancy the past few years as I'm of an age when I'm losing my own loved ones, and I need to process my grief so that I can support theirs. Poetry helps, and this line feels very real.

Sleepswithbooks What a beautiful book. I‘m mesmerized by the cover ☺️ 2y
Soubhiville I like your bunny mug 😁🐇 2y
Bookwomble @Sleepswithbooks They're a lovely series of books 😊 2y
Bookwomble @Soubhiville March hare - seemed appropriate for spring and Easter 🐰🐣😊 2y
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"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, -
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, -
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field, -
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who would wield, -
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Bookwomble Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless - A book sealed;
A Senate, - Time's worst statue unrepealed, -
Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day."

Love a bit of Percy. This is "Sonnet: England in 1819", but could equally be 2022 ✊?
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Nute This speaks to NOW, today‘s time! 2y
Bookwomble @Nute That's how it struck me, too. Also, I love the poetic insult, "mud from a muddy spring". Really hits the target ? 2y
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TrishB Wow 😯 The Funeral of Shelley is one of my fave pieces in the Walker Art Gallery. I love building up to seeing it when I walk round. 2y
quietlycuriouskate Mr Shelley! ❤️ Whenever he shows up I'm briefly 20 again. 2y
Bookwomble @TrishB How have I never seen that painting! 😱🤯 Trip to the Walker in planning stages! 🏛 2y
TrishB You will love it. It‘s so amazing in real life. I love it more every time. 2y
Bookwomble @kathedron Keats does it for me 😊 2y
Bookwomble @TrishB I've been to the Walker loads of times, so can't imagine how I've missed it. I'm a bit excited now! 🤓 2y
Leftcoastzen What a cute little Shelley ! poem is amazing! 2y
LeahBergen Wow. And I love that little edition. 2y
TrishB Enjoy ❤️ let me know what you think when you‘ve seen it! 2y
Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen It's from a series put out by Jarrold Publishing in the late '80s, early '90s, which is when I picked up the Keats edition which goes everywhere with me. The Shelley I bought a couple of weeks ago from a discount bookshop, which was a pleasing find 😊 2y
Bookwomble @TrishB I shall 🙂 2y
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“Narrow
The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates,
The life that wears, the spirit that creates
One object, and one form, and builds thereby
A sepulchre for its eternity."

- Epipsychidion

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“True Love in this differs from gold and clay,
That to divide is not to take away.
Love is like understanding, that grows bright
Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light,
Imagination! which from earth and sky,
And from the depths of human fantasy,
As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills
The Universe with glorious beams, and kills
Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow
Of its reverberated lightning."

- Epipsychidion

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"I love tranquil solitude,
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good."

- "Song"