Adonais

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Adonais is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous pastoral elegy mourning the death of fellow Romantic poet John Keats.

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instanceOf pastoral elegy
poem
addresses mourners of Keats
readers of Romantic poetry
author Percy Bysshe Shelley
commemorates John Keats
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
dedicatedTo John Keats
firstPublicationYear 1821
form lyric poem
genre elegy
pastoral poetry
hasMode consolation
lament
hasPart stanzas
hasSetting idealized pastoral landscape
hasTheme consolation through art
critique of hostile critics of Keats
nature and spirituality
transience of life
influencedBy Milton’s Lycidas
classical elegy tradition
pastoral elegies for Edmund Spenser
language English
literaryForm long poem
literaryPeriod Romanticism
surface form: Romantic period
literaryTradition English elegy
mentions Adonis
John Keats
Urania
meter Spenserian stanza
movement Romanticism
surface form: English Romanticism
notableFor being Shelley’s major elegy
its complex Spenserian stanza form
its idealization of Keats
its influence on later elegiac poetry
relatedWork In Memoriam A.H.H.
Milton’s Lycidas
surface form: Lycidas

Thyrsis
subject death of John Keats
fame and legacy
mourning
poetry and immortality
titleAlludesTo Adonis
writtenBy Percy Bysshe Shelley
writtenInResponseTo death of John Keats

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