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Updated: May 12, 2025
They were begun and completed without their author's ever thinking out a plot, or its mode of treatment. Kukolnik's "Alf and Adona," in which at least one hundred and fifty characters are brought upon the stage, has not one whose appearance is designed to concentrate the interest of the audience. Each comes in to show himself, and goes out not to be in the way any longer.
Then came the book of "Thel," an allegory, wherein Thel, beautiful daughter of the Seraphim, laments the shortness of her life down by the River of Adona, and is answered by the Lily of the Valley, the Little Cloud, the Lowly Worm, and the Clod of Clay; the burden of whose song is "But how this is, sweet maid, I know not, and I cannot know, I ponder, and I cannot ponder: yet I live and love!"
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