Shelley's elegy for the young poet John Keats, mourning his early death and consoling itself with the vision of Keats's spirit absorbed back into the eternal beauty of nature.
Books that mention Adonais (4)
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf: “What with Shakespeare and Adonais, Mozart and Bishop Berkeley--choose whom you like”
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: “"I feel that there's almost everything one wants in 'Adonais.'" "Read 'Adonais' by all means," Richard conceded.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “are forever linked by Shelley's Adonais, his elegy for Keats.”
Stoner by John Williams: “would you comment on Shelley's principle of knowledge—specifically, the principle of beauty—enunciated in the final stanzas of 'Adonais'?”