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write the theme of adonais

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In his preface to Adonais, Shelley called Keats one of the writers “of the highest genius who have adorned our age.” Shelley saw in the tragedy of Keats’s untimely death a comment on the mindless cruelty that the world inflicts upon the sensitive soul. Shelley imagined that Keats’s illness and death were the direct result of an anonymous and vituperative review of Keats’s ambitious poem Endymion. That review, which is now known to have been written by an individual named John Wilson Croker, had been published in the influential Quarterly Review for April, 1818. Shelley was not alone in his opinion that the negative reaction had broken the young Keats’s heart; Byron was of the same opinion.

Shelley’s poem is therefore a sincere act of public mourning and reaffirmation in the face of an apparently needless and certainly tragic death; yet it is also a literary broadside of the first order. Its pointed and feeling attack on the pettiness of the quarterly reviewers in the face of the poetry which Shelley and his fellow Romantics were producing (and in the process, altering the nature of English poetry for generations to come) itself follows a long tradition harking back at least as far as John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe (1682) and Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad (1728-1743). With typical Romantic élan, nevertheless, Shelley turns both the pastoral elegy and the literary satire into a stirring

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