Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language.
... witch " or " hag . " The Italian connotation of the word may be that of a witch in a derogatory sense but it has a complimentary implica- tion as well . Shelley uses the characteristics for his witch that the Italian writer attributed ...
... Witch of Atlas , 401-416 . Rev .: The Witch of Atlas , fragments of 383-400 . Stub 86B Rev .: The Witch of Atlas , fragments of 313-20 . Stub 86C Stub 86D Stub 86E Stub 86F 87 Rev .: The Witch of Atlas , fragments of 356-9 and 366-73 . Rev ...
... Witch of Atlas' (1980), follows Bloom but, taking one further step to equate a mythopoeic creation with superlative poetry from a deconstructionist point of view, considers the poem to be a playful and endless ... Witch of Atlas' 151.
... Witch of Atlas Jean Hall ... In his prefatory poem to The Witch of Atlas , Shelley claims there can be no comparison between his graceful Witch , with her ' Light vest of flowing metre ' ( 37 ) and Wordsworth's Peter Bell , ' a lean ...
... Witch of Atlas , Shelley asserts that poetry , as the expression of the imagination , is ' the great instrument of moral good ' ( A Defence of Poetry , p . 682 ) . The Witch of Atlas scrutinises this idea even as the poetry seems ' by ...