Better known is his elegy which concludes that his friend's soul "like a star,/Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are," and his avian ode that begins, "Hail to thee, Blithe Spirit!"
"Zeinab and Kathema" and "The Retrospect" are among the short poems of this author among the miscellany now called The Esdaile Notebook. His verse play satirizing George IV's attempts to bar his wife Caroline from her privilege to the throne, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot the Tyrant, was suppressed, as was an 1811 pamphlet which got him and Thomas Hogg expelled from Oxford, The Necessity of Atheism. Better known is his elegy which concludes that his friend's soul "like a star,/Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are," and his avian ode that begins, "Hail to thee, Blithe Spirit!" Author of "Adonais" and "To a Skylark" was, for 10 points, what Romantic who also wrote "Ode to the West Wind"?
"Zeinab and Kathema" and "The Retrospect" are among the short poems of this author among the miscellany now called The Esdaile Notebook.
Percy Bysshe {Shelley}