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flower to flower" and it visits also "with inconstant glance / Each human heart and countenance." When it passes away it leaves "our state, / This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate." Shelley does not profess to know why Intellectual Beauty, which he calls "unknown and awful," is an inconstant visitor, but he is convinced that if it kept "with glorious train firm state" within man's heart, man would be "immortal and omnipotent." But since the Spirit of Beauty visits the world and man's heart with such irregularity, Shelley pleads with his deity rather than praises it. It remains remote and inaccessible. In the concluding stanza Shelley is a suppliant praying that the power of the Spirit of Beauty will continue to supply its calm "to one who worships thee, / And every form containing thee."
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one might as well ask why rainbows disappear or why man can both love and hate, despair and hope. No voice from another world has ever answered these questions. The "names of Demon, Ghost, and Heaven" are the record of men's vain attempts to get answers to such questions. Only the light of the Spirit of Beauty gives grace and truth to the restless dream which life is. If the Spirit of Beauty remained constantly with man, man would be immortal and omnipotent. It nourishes human thought. The poet beseeches this spirit not to depart from the world. Without it, death would be an experience to be feared.
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Alpine scenery was new to Shelley and unutterably beautiful. He was profoundly moved by it, and the poem, he wrote to Leigh Hunt, was "composed under the influence of feelings which agitated me even to tears." Thanks to the Alps, Shelley, who had given up Christianity, had at last found a deity which
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The shadow of a strange power floats unseen throughout the world, entering into man, coming and going mysteriously. Shelley asks this shadow, which he calls a "Spirit of Beauty," where it has gone and why it disappears and leaves us desolate. Then he acknowledges that it is vain to ask this question;
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In regard to the "Intellectual Beauty" of the title, Barrell remarked that it implies an approach by means of the mental faculties but that Shelley meant to convey the idea that his concept of beauty was abstract rather than concrete. His approach is romantic and emotional. Shelley, however, thinks
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romances, the shadow of Intellectual Beauty suddenly fell on him. He shrieked and clasped his hands in ecstasy. As a consequence of this experience, he tells us in Stanza VI, he vowed that he would dedicate his "powers / To thee and thine," and he has kept his vow. The experience also left him with
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In his youth, Shelley sought spiritual reality in ghosts and the dead. In his search, the shadow of the Spirit of Beauty suddenly fell on him and filled him with elation. He vowed that he would dedicate himself to this Spirit and he has kept his vow. He is convinced that it will free the world from
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The central idea of "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" is that there is a spiritual power that stands apart from both the physical world and the heart of man. This power is unknown to man and invisible, but its shadow visits "this various world with as inconstant wing / As summer winds that creep from
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The narrator breaks from the Wordsworthian tradition by realising that Intellectual Beauty, and not manifestations of it in nature, is what should be worshipped. The imagination, and not nature, is connected to truth, and the narrator realises that he should revere his own imagination and the
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Shelley replaces the third of the Christian values, faith, with self-esteem, which signifies respect for the human imagination. According to the narrator, we have only temporary access to these values and can only attain them through Intellectual Beauty:
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he could wholeheartedly adore. The worship of beauty is Shelley's new religion, and it is significant that he calls his poem a hymn, a term used almost exclusively for religious verse. Later, in August 1817, Shelley read Plato's
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The words he speaks, possibly referring to Christian doctrines, brought him no response. It was not until he mused on life that he was able to experience a sort of religious awakening and learn of Intellectual Beauty:
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by William Benbow in 1826 in London. After the initial publication, Percy Shelley corrected lines 27 and 58 but made no other changes. A second finished version was discovered in December 1976 in the
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Shelley's understanding of Beauty as an ideal and universal aspect, as opposed to the common understanding of the word as an aesthetic judgment of an object, was influenced by his knowledge of
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the hope that the Spirit of Beauty would free "this world from its dark slavery." In this stanza, Shelley combined two of the major interests of his life, love of beauty and love of freedom.
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The "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" was conceived and written during a boating excursion with Byron on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, in June 1816. The beauty of the lake and of the
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of his Spirit of Beauty as personal, like the God of Christianity. He addresses it, pleads with it, worships it, but is using only the rhetorical device of personification.
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the state of slavery in which it is. He prays that this power will bring calm to his life, for he worships it. It has taught him to fear himself and love all mankind.
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who immediately lost it. Shelley was therefore forced to create another finished draft of the poem and resend the poem. It was eventually published in Hunt's
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is responsible for Shelley's elevating what he calls "Intellectual Beauty" to the ruling principle of the universe.
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In Stanza V, Shelley confesses that in his youth, while he was searching for spiritual reality, chiefly by reading
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and his faith in beauty was no doubt strengthened by Plato's discussion of abstract beauty in that work and in the
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that states a Knowledge editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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Isomaki, Richard. "Interpretation and Value in 'Mont Blanc' and 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'."
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copy of the poem and the original manuscript draft in terms of language and philosophical view.
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Once he learns of Intellectual Beauty, he makes a vow, which begins stanza six:
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Watson, J. R. "Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' and the Romantic Hymn."
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The second stanza begins with the narrator addressing Intellectual Beauty:
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Reiman, Donald H. and Fraistat, Neil. "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" in
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Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart. (Lines 36–41)
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Shelley and the Thought of His Time: A Study in the History of Ideas
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The first published edition varies from both the copy found in the
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on 19 January 1817. The poem also appeared in the 1819 collection
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Nitchie, Elizabeth. "Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'."
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This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? (Lines 13–17)
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I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy! (Lines 59–60)
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Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Remain the records of their vain endeavour, (Lines 25–28)
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Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. (Lines 49–52)
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To fear himself, and love all human kind. (Lines 78–84)
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But he is not answered, as he reveals in stanza three:
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Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. 448:Learn how and when to remove this message 738: 337:Thus let thy power, which like the truth 246:The fourth stanza reveals three values: 225:For love and hate, despondency and hope? 210:Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain river. 29: 17: 326:I vowed that I would dedicate my powers 236:To sage or poet these responses given – 216:Why fear and dream and death and birth, 175:Like clouds of starlight widely spread, 1459: 352:Whom, Spirit fair, thy spells did bind 286:Depart not – lest the grave should be, 192:Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate 181:Like aught that for its grace may be – 712: 515: 333:Stanza seven continues with the vow: 184:Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery. 151:The awful shadow of some unseen Power 1161:Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit 1057:Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue 896:Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire 617:, 33, 22 March 1999, pp. 43–66. 603:, Vol. 32, (1983), pp. 123–149. 401: 346:Its calm – to one who worships thee, 1177:Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline 343:Descended, to my onward life supply 274:That wax and wane in lovers's eyes- 13: 1041:Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude 256:Man were immortal, and omnipotent, 172:Like hues and harmonies of evening 14: 1483: 684: 169:Each human heart and countenance; 1349:The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley 880:" (published posthumously, 1840) 781: 406: 166:It visits with inconstant glance 349:And every form containing thee, 280:Like darkness to a dying flame! 145:Ode: Intimations of Immortality 53:in 1816 and published in 1817. 1467:Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1278:Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet 1255:The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein 994:One Word is Too Often Profaned 870:A Philosophical View of Reform 622:CliffsNotes on Shelley's Poems 566: 557: 548: 521:Reiman and Fraistat 2002 p. 93 512:Reiman and Fraistat 2002 p. 92 506: 315:Sudden, thy shadow fell on me; 283:Depart not as thy shadow came, 222:Why does man have such a scope 1: 1429:The Haunting of Villa Diodati 847:A Vindication of Natural Diet 840:A Letter to Lord Ellenborough 691:"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" 579: 363: 340:Of nature on my passive youth 271:Thou messenger of sympathies, 207:Ask why sunlight not forever, 89:printed by C. 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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Amelia Curran
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
Lake Geneva
Leigh Hunt
Examiner
Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems
Charles and James Ollier
ode
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
sensibility
Julie, or the New Heloise
William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Plato
dialectic
Symposium
personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
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encyclopedic style
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Swiss Alps
Symposium
Phaedrus
Gothic

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