This poem twice states "Go to Rome", calling it the sepulchre "of our joy".
In a letter to Claire Clermont, the author of this poem claimed that while writing it, a "stormy mist of sensations" continuously afflicted him. This poem describes a group as "the splendours of the firmament of time" that are never "extinguish'd," and suggests that group comes from those whose "names on Earth are dark / but whose transmitted effluence cannot die / so long as fire outlives the parent spark." This poem praises "kings of thought, / who wag'd contention with their time's decay", and notes that "Chatterton," "Sidney" and "Lucan" are figures who "rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought". This poem twice states "Go to Rome", calling it the sepulchre "of our joy". This poem's 55th and final stanza compares the "soul of" the title character to a star that "Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." For 10 points, name this elegy for John Keats, written by Percy Shelley.
In a letter to Claire Clermont, the author of this poem claimed that while writing it, a "stormy mist of sensations" continuously afflicted him.
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