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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 line "It is a woe 'too deep for tears'" is a quote from Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality". Eight lines from the poem "Mutability" are quoted in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) in the scene when Victor Frankenstein climbs Montanvert in the Swiss Alps:
Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1816 poem "Mutability" in a draft of Frankenstein with his changes to the text in his handwriting. Bodleian. Oxford. Since the initial publication of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, there has existed uncertainty about the extent to which Mary Shelley's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, contributed to the text.
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 ...
Pages in category "Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Mutability (poem) O. Ode to the West Wind;
In Memory of My Brother, John Wordsworth, Commander of the E. I. Company's Ship, The Earl Of Abergavenny, in which He Perished by Calamitous Shipwreck, Feb. 6th, 1805. "The Sheep-boy whistled loud, and lo!" Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. 1842 VI 1800–1805 "When, to the attractions of the busy world," Poems on the Naming of Places 1815 Louisa.
A descriptive catalogue of the first editions in book form of the writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley, based on a memorial exhibition held at The Grolier Club from April 20, to May 20, 1922. New York: The Grolier Club. pp. 78–81. Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1824). Shelley, Mary (ed.). Posthumous Poems. London: C. H. Reynell for John and Henry L. Hunt.
"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]