2 Poems by Percy Shelley and Paul Dunbar

Is art confined to distinctive time periods? Did the artists of the past actually change the way they thought because certain callendar years are given certain titles? Or, is art defined by the content of the idea in the piece?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) & Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) are from quite opposite backgrounds, times, and countries. Both died young. Both had a love of classical culture. I read from Shelley's "Rarely, rarely, comest thou! Spirit of Delight. and Dunbars "The Lesson".

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• Percy
• Bysshe
• Shelley
• Paul
• Laurence
• Dunbar
• Socratic
• poem
• sorrow

[AllErikaEclectica]

Hi. You mean he's more his own category, like Blake? He's the radical of his time, so is it that you see his social reformer side as incompatible with Romanticism? How would you classify him, if such classification were possible or desired? Visionaries are often hard to sum up, eh?

[Amiduffer]

Hmm. If you can find it, Heine wrote a book about the Romantic movement. That would make the issue more clear for you I think why Shelley shouldn't be classified as such.

[AllErikaEclectica]

I like the parallels you are drawing here. I agree--the essential transcends its epoch. I know Shelley so very well (and have his work in my uploads), but had not heard Dunbar before. Thanks for presenting his work.

[Amiduffer]

Hi there. From reading Shelley, I have disagreements with the characterization of him as a Romantic, much as its wrong to label Beethoven a romantic.

[GwenAYF]

Lovely companionship Blysse and Lawrence.

I envy your finding time to read poetry in your busy life. I should return to to that pleasure, more often. You're right, the essential knows no time, nor limited vision. of place or person.

[Amiduffer]

You don't have to find something that you never lost.

[AllErikaEclectica]

thanks

[Amiduffer]

Yes, he read classical literature constantly. This is a park up on top of a hill next to some iron works and railroad tracks. 8)

[ockteby]

Just returned from some down time in the forest of the high country to find you in the woods with two excellent poems. Do you think Paul Dunbar was aware of Percy Shelby? *****

Frank