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"Mutability" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems. Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) although his authorship is not acknowledged, while the 1816 poem by Leigh Hunt is acknowledged with ...
The work was first published in London in 1816 (see 1816 in poetry) under the title Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems, printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, Pater-Noster Row; and Carpenter and Son, Old Bond-Street: by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, consisting of the title poem and the following additional poems:
The poem's theme is Beauty, but Shelley's understanding of how the mind works is different from Plato's: Plato wrote (principally in the Symposium) that Beauty is a metaphysical object existing independent of our experiences of particular concrete objects, while Shelley believed that philosophy and metaphysics could not reveal truth and that an ...
Classed as (by Wordsworth) Publication date Composed on the Banks of a Rocky Stream 1820 "Dogmatic Teachers, of the snow-white fur!" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1820 On the death of His Majesty (George the Third) 1820 "Ward of the Law!—dread Shadow of a King!" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1820 The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand 1820
Kim Blank takes a psycho-autobiographical approach: he situates the core Lucy poems in the context of what surfaces during Wordsworth's depressive and stressful German experience in the winter of 1798–1799; he concludes that "Lucy dies at the threshold of being fully expressed as a feeling of loss," and that, for Wordsworth, she "represents a ...
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