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
Pastoral elegy poets, especially through Edmund Spenser's “The Shepherd’s Calendar,” which was published in 1579. One of the most famous examples of pastoral poetry is John Milton's “Lycidas.” Written in 1637, the poem is written about Edward King, a fellow student of Milton's who had died. History of pastoral poetry Pastoral elegy, a subcategory of the elegy form of poetry, has its roots in Hellenistic Greek poetry of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. Pastoral poetry itself, which deals heavily with shepherds and other forms of rustic life, dates back to the 3rd century BC when Theocritus, a Greek poet, wrote his