ADONAIS (edition 1902)

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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the.ken.petersen's review

If ever you feel the need of proof that we are a barbarian race, look no further than my purchase of this little book. Produced in 1902, this lovely edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais, bearing a romantic billet-doux of ten years later from a gentleman to his paramour, was purchased for £2 including p&p. This is a crime.

Now, to the contents of this tome; it is a wonderful poem of PBS's mature period. It is available in some selections of Shelley's works but, there is something special in owning a vintage, albeit not a contemporary, edition. I am afraid that I rejoice in the lack of wisdom that sees a mobile phone with some useless gizmo, totally un-necessary for a happy life, being valued at many times that of such a wonderful work. (

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the.ken.petersen | Dec 3, 2014 |

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Finally managed to read through it. I don't know why I had such a hard time getting to it. Lots of hard-to-follow sentences and plenty of gorgeous verse music--so, standard Shelleyan fare. (

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judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 |

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the.ken.petersen | Dec 3, 2014 |

As a boy, I had problems learning to swim. Shelley drowned, because he could not swim, just thirty years old, when at the Ligurian Sea in a thunderstorm his boat sunk. Hearing this from my English teacher, I doubled and tripled my strength, until I was able to keep my head above water for a minimum of twenty minutes.

hbergander | Dec 12, 2011 |

Shelley's elegy on the death of Keats. A remarkable poem, perhaps one of the greatest elegies ever written in English. "Mour not for Adonaïs thou young dawn." (

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Fledgist | Jan 9, 2010 |

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