Word: shelleys
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...stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example, his idea of an idyllic state of society not dissimilar to that of Shelley's "Promethens Unbound". In "Tristan" he brings his reading of Schoppenhauer to its logical and extreme conclusion. All in all, the figure of Wagner is gigantic not only in music, where he is supreme, but also in literature where he looms large in the field of the drama being without much...
...many, many writers who were great in their own time have been absolutely forgotten after their death. And, vice versa, many gained their fame years after their own time. Consider Keats and Shelley, even they found but small places among their contemporaries. Time is an uncertain thing. It is impossible to tell what it will...
Came dawn. And the Student Vagabond reached for his Encyclopedia, Shelley's "Works", and a cigarette. And then, helter skelter, he went roaming around the Yard in his cavalier pink robe de nuit searching the most delightful little lectures possible...
...Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...Pamphlet Poet at 25c the pamphlet. Now one may have an anthology piecemeal, buy it on the installment plan and include only his own favorites. The pocketful of U. S. Pamphlet Poets is published by Simon & Schuster. F. A. Stokes has published a British pocketful, including Keats, Shelley, Laureate Bridges...