THE WANING MOON


In these few lines the Shelley spirit seems to be more intense than
in any other passage as brief.


ODE TO THE WEST WIND


This magnificent poem is surely the greatest of a great poses
writings, and one of the most splendid poems on nature and on
poetry in a literature resounding with odes on these enormous
themes.


THE INVITATION


No need to point to a poem that so shines as does this lucent
verse.


LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI


Keats is here the magical poet, as he is the intellectual poet in
the great sonnet following; and it is his possession or promise of