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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 ...
"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]
Book Fourth: Summer Vacation 1799–1805 "Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fifth: Books 1799–1805 "When Contemplation, like the night-calm felt" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Sixth: Cambridge and the Alps 1799–1805
[109] On "A slumber did my spirit seal", Wordsworth's friend Thomas Powell wrote that the poem "stands by itself, and is without title prefixed, yet we are to know, from the penetration of Mr. Wordsworth's admirers, that it is a sequel to the other deep poems that precede it, and is about one Lucy, who is dead. From the table of contents ...
Book XIX of this, the main locus of Augustine's normative political thought, is focused on the question, 'Is the good life social?' In other words, 'Is human wellbeing found in the good of the whole society, the common good?' Chapters 5–17 of Book XIX address this question. Augustine's emphatic answer is yes (see start of chap. 5).
The principle of mutability is the notion that any physical property which appears to follow a conservation law may undergo some physical process that violates its conservation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] John Archibald Wheeler offered this speculative principle after Stephen Hawking predicted the evaporation of black holes which violates baryon number ...
The Snowdon episode of Book XIII of the 1805 edition of The Prelude, as well as Wordsworth's "A Night Piece," have been connected with "The Idiot Boy" as pieces "featuring a lunar epiphany." [136] The moonlight is also mentioned in Wordsworth's "Peter Bell," which seems to allude to Johnny's journey, [137] and has even been dubbed the poem's ...
The poem’s writing process began in the second half of 1796. [7] [8] In its earliest form, the work existed under the title “Description of a Beggar”. [7]A part of the text, which was originally situated after sixty-six lines of today’s version of “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, was removed from the poem and made into a separate work, “Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch”. [2]