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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 ...
Book Ninth: Residence in France 1799–1805 "Even as a river,--partly (it might seem)" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Tenth: Residence in France (continued) 1799–1805 "It was a beautiful and silent day" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Eleventh: France (concluded) 1799–1805
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" is an 84-line ode that was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel of sensibility Julie, or the New Heloise and William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality". Although the theme of the ode, glory's departure, is shared with Wordsworth's ode, Shelley holds a differing view of nature: [3]
The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads , a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ b ɪ ʃ / ⓘ BISH; [1] [2] 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. [3] [4] A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an ...
The Institutes of the Lawes of England are a series of legal treatises written by Sir Edward Coke.They were first published, in stages, between 1628 and 1644. [1] Widely recognized as a foundational document of the common law, they have been cited in over 70 cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, [2] including several landmark cases.
The title page of the first book of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1st ed., 1765). The Commentaries on the Laws of England [1] (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford between 1765 and 1769.