"Adonais" : Key info
"Adonais" is a notable literary work by Percy Bysshe Shelley. A complete discussion of this literary work is given, which will help you enhance your literary skills and prepare for the exam. Read the Main texts, Key info, Summary, Themes, Characters, Literary devices, Quotations, Notes, to various questions of "Adonais".
Key info
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)
Full Title: Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc.
Written Date: 1821
Publication Date: 1821
Genre: Pastoral Elegy
Tone: Elegiac and Mournful
Total Stanzas: 55 Spenserian Stanzas.
Total Lines: 495
Rhyme Scheme: ababbcbcc
Setting: Time Setting: 1821 at the death of John Keats
Place Setting: Pisa, Italy.