Percy Bysshe Shelley - ’Adonais’, read from by Mick Jagger, 1969 / cc English, Español

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. ’Adonais’ is a pastoral elegy written for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley’s best and most well-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats’ death (seven weeks earlier). Mick Jagger of the R