 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
..."Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude" (1816) is a long poem in blank verse about "a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified by familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe." But... | |
 | Philip W. Martin - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 268 pages
...Byron in deep water fairly quickly. In Shelley's own words, the poem 'represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination...excellent and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe'.14 Its allegory may be designed to express the agonies of the too-sensitive poet, but it... | |
 | Kevin Z. Moore - Fiction - 1993 - 344 pages
...as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind," namely enthusiasm and imagination "inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic" (Preface, Alastor, 69). It is curious just how closely Arnold's definition of what not to do approximates... | |
 | Eliot Weinberger - Fiction - 1992 - 200 pages
...Alto, high, azor, hawk. Or is it an anagram for Alsator, Shelley's long poem of "a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination...and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe"? Shelley's Romantic poet-hero, first at peace with the "infinite and unmeasured," grows dissatisfied... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination,...still insatiate. The magnificence and beauty of the external world sinks profoundly into the frame of his conceptions, and affords to their modifications... | |
 | Ray Monk - Philosophers - 1996 - 728 pages
...('He lived, he died, he sung, in solitude'), who is, in the words of Shelley's preface to the poem, 'led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified...familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic in the contemplation of the universe'. He seeks to know and understand everything about 'the external... | |
 | Guinn Batten - Business & Economics - 1998 - 326 pages
...allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination...still insatiate. The magnificence and beauty of the external world sinks profoundly into the frame of his conceptions, and affords to their modifications... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...Shelley on the order of the older Wordsworth. The Poet-protagonist of Alastor is "a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination...contemplation of the universe. He drinks deep of the fountain of knowledge, and is still insatiate" (69). Words such as "inflamed" and "insatiate" suggest... | |
 | Vicente Huidobro - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 170 pages
...Alto, high, azor, hawk. Or is it an anagram for Alastor, Shelley's long poem of "a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination...and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe"? Shelley's Romantic poet-hero, first at peace with the "infinite and unmeasured," grows dissatisfied... | |
 | Thomas R. Frosch - Poetry - 2007 - 368 pages
...described in images of thirst: "The fountains of divine philosophy / Fled not his thirsting lips" (71-72); "He drinks deep of the fountains of knowledge, and is still insatiate," and his mind "thirsts for intercourse with an intelligence similar to itself (R, 72-73). Thomas Weiskel... | |
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Alastor may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that... 
