Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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" Adonais.
1822. Hellas. A Drama on the Grecian War of Liberation. 1824. Posthumous Poems. Include Julian and Maddalo, written in 1818, The Witch of Atlas, 1820, The Triumph of Life, 1822, and many other compositions and translations. The _Masque of Anarchy_ and _Peter Bell the Third_, both written by Shelley in 1819, were published later on; also various minor poems, complete or fragmentary. _Peter Bell the Third_ has a certain fortuitous connexion with Keats. It was written in consequence of Shelley's having read in _The Examiner_ a notice of _Peter Bell, a Lyrical Ballad_ (the production of John Hamilton Reynolds): and this notice, as has very recently been proved, was the handiwork of Keats. Shelley cannot have been aware of that fact. His prose _Essays and Letters_, including _The Defence of Poetry_, appeared in 1840. The only known work of Shelley, extant but yet unpublished, is the _Philosophical View of Reform_: an abstract of it, with several extracts, was printed in the _Fortnightly Review_ in 1886. MEMOIR OF KEATS. The parents of John Keats were Thomas Keats, and Frances, daughter of |
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