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" THOU wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled ; Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead. "
The Quarterly Review (london) - Page 212
by Anonymous - 1865 - 622 pages
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...society.45 The epigraph to Adonais is a little poem attributed to Plato, which Shelley himself translated: Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy...art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead. Keats has passed from the sphere of Lucifer, star of the morning, to that of Hesperus or Venus, first...
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Apologia sive Pro se de magia liber

Harold Edgeworth Butler, Apuleius, Lucius Apuleius, Arthur Synge Owen - 386 pages
...¿турарцата & KOÍ irpàt avrov ytvtíroai. The lines have been beautifully translated by Shelley: 'Thou wast the morning star among the living, / Ere thy fair...Now having died, thou art as Hesperus giving / New light unto the dead.' 28. vCv 8' ÏT« |xi)Siv ктХ. Anth. Pal. vii. 100, wrongly placed among the...
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Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry

Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...continuity that persists within apparent loss. The epigram attributed to Plato and rendered by Shelley as: Thou wert the morning star among the living Ere thy...thou art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead5 is the very emblem of triumphant sublimation, of identity maintained in the realms of death....
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Paint it Today

Hilda Doolittle - Fiction - 1992 - 148 pages
...had drawn him to the star in the end, among the living. Thou wert the morning star among the living. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light was shed, Now having died thou art as Hesperus giving New splendor to the dead. H Hesperus. That was...
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...conflation of the Greek 'Adonis', a beautiful heroic figure, and the Hebrew word 'Adonai' meaning 'Lord'. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy...art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead. The epigraph to the 'Preface' comes from one of the central examples of the classical tradition of...
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Plato on Poetry: Ion; Republic 376e-398b9; Republic 595-608b10

Plato - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 268 pages
...Perhaps the most famous of the poems attributed to P. is the epitaph to Aster, translated by Shelley: Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy...art as Hesperus, giving New splendour to the dead. The epigrams are collected together in E. Diehl (ed.), Anthologia lyrica graeca: poetae elegiaci, 3rd...
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Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers

Margaret Dickie, Thomas J. Travisano - Poetry - 1996 - 352 pages
...allusion to Midget's search for a twin-love via Shelley's translation of Plato in the epigraph to Adonaif. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light was shed. Now having died thou art as Hesperus giving New splendor to the dead.7 Victorian critics...
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H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines

Eileen Gregory - History - 1997 - 352 pages
...another epigram of Plato (Palatine Anthology 7.670) in Shelley's translation (epigraph to "Adonais"): "Thou wert the morning star among the living, / Ere...Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving / New spendour to the dead" (Shelley 720; Paint It Today 12 and passim; "The Wise Sappho," in Notes on Thought...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...epitaph attributed (probably wrongly) to Plato. Shelley translated it as follows: 'Thou wert the evening star among the living, / Ere thy fair light had fled;...as Hesperus, giving / New splendour to the dead.' head: ie life (a Greek idiom). compeers: fellows. Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, When...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 1999 - 476 pages
....mributed (probably wrongly1 to Plato. Shelley translated it as follows: 'Thou wen the evening star iuuung the living, / Ere thy fair light had fled; / Now,...as Hesperus, giving / New splendour to the dead.' head: ie life (a Greek idiom1. compeers: fellows. Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, ]Yhen...
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