Alastor: Or the Spirit of Solitude And Other Poems

Alastor


Or the Spirit of Solitude


And Other Poems


By Percy Bysshe Shelley


Narrated by Denis Daly


This meditation on artistic creativity was written during the latter months of 1815, during a sojourn on the border of Windsor Forest. Critics have concurred in the opinion that the anonymous hero of the poem is Shelley himself, who feared that he too would become an "inheritor of unfulfilled renown." Today, the poem is considered to be the first major work of Shelley's maturity.


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