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Updated: May 28, 2025
And lo! advancing to me eagerly along the causeway seemed the very sprite of Alastor himself! There was a star upon his forehead, and around his young face there glowed an aureole of gold and roses to speak figuratively, for the star upon his brow was hope, and the gold and roses encircling his head, a miniature rainbow, were youth and health.
Then all things slip into their places, power and pride, wealth and fame what strange fantasies they seem! What tales I could tell the world at this minute, of how their ways seem to me! Oh, take my advice, good friend, and pray thy God for one hour in which thou mayst see the truth of all those foolish great things of thy life! I read Alastor this afternoon. What a strange vision it is!
Nothing so good had happened to me, I replied but I believed that I had seen a copy of Alastor! For a moment my meaning was lost on him; then he flushed and smiled, thanked me and was off again, saying that he must find his Shelley, as he wouldn't lose it for the world!
Here she takes every sort of poetical license, in a work without the restrictions of poetic form, which are the true conditions of so much latitude. "Manfred" and "Alastor" are fables not further removed from real life than is Lélia.
What is real and unchanging is the one spirit which interpenetrates and upholds the world with "love and beauty and delight," and this spirit the vision which Alastor pursued in vain, the "Unseen Power" of the 'Ode to Intellectual Beauty' is what is always suggested by his poetry at its highest moments.
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