Published in 1819, “Ode on Melancholy” is one of John Keats’s great odes, offering a nuanced exploration of the relationship between sorrow and beauty. Keats begins by wa⋯ Read the full article

John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” first published in 1819, explores the interplay of mortal suffering and the seemingly transcendent beauty of the nightingale’s song. ⋯ Read the full article

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” published in 1820, stands as one of the most revered poems of the English Romantic tradition. Composed in five stanzas, this ode addr⋯ Read the full article

In “The Indian Serenade,” Percy Bysshe Shelley offers a brief but intensely passionate poem that captures the essence of nocturnal longing and idealized love. Told from t⋯ Read the full article

Composed around 1819 and published in 1839 (posthumously, in some collections), “Song to the Men of England” is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s impassioned address to the laboring⋯ Read the full article

Composed in December 1818 and published in 1819, “Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples” captures Percy Bysshe Shelley’s wistful reflections as he gazed out at the bri⋯ Read the full article

In “A Lament,” Percy Bysshe Shelley expresses a profound sense of nostalgia and grief over the passage of time. The speaker addresses the world and life itself, lamenting⋯ Read the full article

“Music When Soft Voices Die” (sometimes titled “To —,” depending on the edition) is a short, lyrical meditation on how beauty and love persist through memory even when th⋯ Read the full article

In “Love’s Philosophy,” Percy Bysshe Shelley uses examples from nature to argue that human affection should follow the same harmonious, intermingling principles found thr⋯ Read the full article

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (published in 1817) presents an ode to the mysterious, invisible force that imbues human life with moments of heighte⋯ Read the full article

Published in 1821, “Epipsychidion” is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s passionate, often enigmatic ode to an idealized love—sometimes read as inspired by Teresa Viviani, a young It⋯ Read the full article

Published in 1816, “Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude” is often considered Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first major poem, setting the stage for themes he would explore throug⋯ Read the full article

Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote “The Mask of Anarchy” (also spelled “The Masque of Anarchy”) in 1819 in direct response to the infamous Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, where ⋯ Read the full article

Composed in 1816 and first published in 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Mont Blanc” is a philosophical reflection set against the awe-inspiring backdrop of the highest peak⋯ Read the full article

In Act IV of *Prometheus Unbound*, Percy Bysshe Shelley moves beyond the direct conflicts of the earlier acts to craft a lyrical epilogue exalting universal liberation. H⋯ Read the full article