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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 ...
"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 ...
To a Highland Girl (at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) (V) 1803 "Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower" Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 Glen Almain; or, The Narrow Glen (VI) 1803 "In this still place, remote from men," Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803
Works like Queen Mab (1813) reveal Shelley "as the direct heir to the French and British revolutionary intellectuals of the 1790s." [35] Shelley became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as well as later W. B. Yeats.
William Shuter, Portrait of William Wordsworth, 1798. The earliest known portrait of Wordsworth, painted in the year he wrote the first drafts of "The Lucy poems" [1] The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801.
The body ideal depicted in those films, the study found, was Eurocentric and thin, which was, in a 2015 study, deemed influential to body dissatisfaction in young girls.
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Daily Front Row Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double in Shallow Hal loved being in the film — until the body-shaming from critics nearly cost her her life.
"Negative capability" is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary theorists to describe the ability to ...