... 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 ...
... Witch of Atlas , Adonais , Epipsychidion , The Cenci , and Hellas , and forty- two other poems . rocks appear in Queen Mab , The Assassins , Alastor , Laon and Cythna , Rosalind and Helen , Peter Bell the Third , Prometheus Unbound , The ...
... Witch of Atlas " : Shelley's " intensest rime " One of Shelley's least read and most widely misunderstood poems , " The Witch of Atlas " deals in an apparently playful manner with the story of a witch who creates a hermaphrodite as her ...
... Witch of Atlas , " Mary recalls urging her husband to " increase his popularity by adopting subjects that would more suit the popular taste than a poem conceived in the abstract and dreamy spirit of the Witch of Atlas , " which lacks ...
... Witch of Atlas, in Essays on Shelley, ed. Miriam Allott (Totowa, N.J.; Barnes & Noble, 1982), 160-90 (190 n. 33). 2. Most readers interpret The Witch of Atlas in the spirit of Harold Bloom, who claims the witch represents ...
... Witch of Atlas, but with a playful and amiable disinterestedness that removes it almost entirely from the anguish of human desire. The Witch of Atlas is Shelley's most inventive poem, and is by any just standards a triumph. In kind ...
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... fancy , forgetting love and hate , and regret and lost hope , in such imaginations as borrowed their hues from sunrise or sunset , from the yellow moonshine or 348 THE WITCH OF ATLAS . THE WITCH OF ATLAS (1820) To Mary The Witch of Atlas.
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