1820s poems

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thumb|1821 title page, Pisa, Italy: Ollier. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. () is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats's death (seven weeks earlier). It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton's Lycidas. Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies. The title of the poe

19th-century Greek epic poem