ABSTRACT
Adonais' seems to the most perfect poem of any length that Shelley ever wrote, because in it he found the subject most suited to his genius. Early in 1821 Shelley made acquaintance of Edward Williams and his wife Jane, with whom he was in close friendship till the end of his life. Keats died at Rome on February 23, and Shelley was moved to indignation by the story, false but commonly believed, that he had been killed by article on 'Endymion' in the Quarterly Review. At the beginning of August Shelley went to see Byron at Ravenna, who, under the influence of the Countess Guiccioli, had now purged and was living cleanly like a gentleman. Keats died at Rome on February 23, and Shelley was moved indignation by the story, false but commonly believed, and that he had been killed by the article on 'Endymion' in the Quarterly Review. Folk-song is, as it were, the music of a single voice.
