...considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius...The magnificence and beauty of the external world sinks profoundly into the frame of his conceptions, and affords to their modifications a variety not...

...becoming an older Shelley on the order of the older Wordsworth. The Poet-protagonist of Alastor is "a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius...contemplation of the universe. He drinks deep of the fountain of knowledge, and is still insatiate" (69). Words such as "inflamed" and "insatiate" suggest...

...ee ee ee ee oh eeah Alto, high, azor, hawk. Or is it an anagram for Alastor, Shelley's long poem of "a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius...and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe"? Shelley's Romantic poet-hero, first at peace with the "infinite and unmeasured," grows dissatisfied...

..."Alastor," may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind ... a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed . . . drinks deep of the fountains of knowledge, and is still insatiate His mind is at length suddenly...

...Shelley called it "allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind," representing "a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed ." He undergoes a coming-of-age at once spiritual and sexual. His soul "thirsts for intercourse with...

...described in images of thirst: "The fountains of divine philosophy / Fled not his thirsting lips" (71-72); "He drinks deep of the fountains of knowledge, and is still insatiate," and his mind "thirsts for intercourse with an intelligence similar to itself (R, 72-73). Thomas Weiskel...