Who Mourns for Adonais? the poem "Adonais" by Percy Shelley lamenting the death of John Keats, which is loosely based upon "A Lament for Adonis" by the Greek poet Bion. A part of the episode is shown in a scene in "". Who Mourns for Adonais? "Who Mourns for Adonais?" is the second episode of the of the American science fiction television series "". Written by Gilbert Ralston and Gene L. Coon, and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast September 22, 1967. The title is in line 415 of the 1821 elegy "Adonais" by Percy Bysshe Shelley and roughly means "who mourns
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard work as well. At that period an anonymous review in "The Academy" (12 December 1896) claimed that "Gray's 'Elegy' and Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village' shine forth as the two human poems in a century of artifice." The Elegy's continued influence in the 19th century provoked a response from the Romantic poets, who often attempted to define their own beliefs in reaction to Gray's. Percy Bysshe Shelley, for example, who as a schoolboy was given the exercise of translating part of the Elegy into Latin, eventually wrote his own meditation among the graves in 1815. His "A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade,