446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years
The History of Literature
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Wordsworth's Elastor
In Elastor the poet is falling asleep in cashmere and has a vision of a maiden who approaches him. Listen to these wild, quasi-erotic lines, where a long way from Wordsworth here. He dreamed a veil it made sat near him, talking in low solemn tones. Her voice was like the voice of his own soul, heard in the calm of thought. Its music long, like woven sounds of streams and breezes, held his inmost sense,. suspended in its web of many colored woof and shifting hues.
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