shelley called adonais a highly wrought piece of art.
shelley called adonais a highly wrought piece of art.
who calls adonais a highly wrought piece of art?
shelley
shelley regarded "adonais" as the "least imperfect" of his works. in a 5 june 1821 letter to john and maria gisborne, shelley wrote about the work: "it is a highly wrought "piece of art", perhaps better in point of composition than anything i have written."









































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adonais
adonais begins with the announcement of his death and the mourning that followed: "i weep for adonais—he is dead!" in stanzas 2 through 35 a series of mourners lament the death of adonais. the mother of adonais, urania, is invoked to arise to conduct the ceremony at his bier. the allusion is to urania, the goddess of astronomy, and to the goddess venus, who is also known as venus urania.
adonais