Hymn to Intellectual beauty

Summary and themes of “Hymn to Intellectual beauty ”

Introduction:  Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Hymn to Intellectual Beauty while sailing around Lake Geneva with Lord Byron in June 1816. The magnificence of the lake and the Swiss Alps is responsible for Shelley elevating “Intellectual Beauty” to the universe’s dominating principle. The basic idea of “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” is that there is a spiritual power separate from both the…

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