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RE: ADSactly Literature - Distant, Novelesque and Lugubrious (English Romanticism - Part II)

in #literature5 years ago

A beautiful publication, @josemalavem, to remember those classic authors who amazed us and enlightened us in our youth. It is propitious the occasion to return to look for his works and to enter again in that kingdom where the fantasy and the romanticism had their seat.
Although I should reread these works, I admit, you refer in your magnificent work, I want to mention here Mont Blanc (the highlight of the European orography in correlation with the greatness of human thought), beautiful piece of universal poetry that filled me of joy in those moments when he climbed reading his verses the physical and spiritual heights.
I would like to contribute, with your permission, showing the first stanza of the poem:

The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark-now glittering-now reflecting gloom-
Now lending splendour, where from secret springs
The source of human thought its tribute brings
Of waters-with a sound but half its own,
Such as a feeble brook will oft assume,
In the wild woods, among the mountains lone,
Where waterfalls around it leap for ever,
Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river
Over its rocks ceaselessly bursts and raves.

Thank you, @josemalavem, for contributing with this beautiful essay to undo a bit the snow that ruthless time has accumulated in my memory.
And, of course, thanks also to @adsactly for disseminating it.

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Grateful for your reading and affectionate comment, @oacevedo. The poets of English romanticism are key figures of modern literature, and among them, undoubtedly, Percy Shelley with his "Mont Blanc". It is a very beautiful poem. Thank you for placing the first stanza. I transcribed the last one because it seems to me that it sums up the global vision of the lyrical speaker. Greetings.

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