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Shelley and Keats Portraits, Landscapes, Manuscripts, Poetry Shelley, about age 11 University College (Shelley’s College at Oxford) Shelley and Faith Shelley sought the Divine in nature Expelled from Oxford for distributing pamphlet on necessity of atheism Hstudied other religions, worshipped the intellect as the Divine capability in individual men, and saw in nature and in each act of human emotion an expression of the sublimity he sought. Intellectual Beauty His Hymn to Intellectual Beauty showcases this search for divinity in the Spirit of BEAUTY (p. 397). He recollects his days as a boy listening for ghosts and seeking terrors as a preliminary seeking for what he desires, and talks about his devotion to Awful LOVELINESS (398) as a source of inspiration Shelley, as painted by Keats’ friend Severn Poetry as a way of changing the world “West Wind” celebrates the emotional sensibility of poets that is the hallmark of Romantic artistry Calls on the wild West Wind to drive out the dry leaves of poetic tradition and renew, reshape, reincarnate the poetic spirit in him P. 401 is important part Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like wither’d leaves, to quicken a new birth; And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguish’d hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (p. 401) Shelley the Reviser “Skylark” Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!Bird thou never wert,That from Heaven, or near it,Pourest thy full heartIn profuse strains of unpremeditated art.... Ozymandias and the ruins that inspired it Major concern of later Romantics is Mutability--the inevitability of change, the knowledge that nothing can be constant, the eroding of belief that anything man-made (whether physical or cultural) can be eternal, and the very human need to believe in something immortal anyway.  The Byron quote on p. 3 of your book i