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Excerpt from Note-Book of the Shelley Society, Vol. 1
Shelley's truthfulness extended to his descriptions of natural scenery. He gives us with closest accuracy, not, like Keats, minute details, but the tone, the Spirit, the changing impression, of the scene. It is interesting to notice in Alastor, for instance, how the character of the stream varies with the changing thoughts in the wanderer's mind. Shelley, like Turner, painted his impressions, but the impressions were invariably true to nature. Byron obviously wrote in the studio, not face to face with the living world; but Shelley, even when most victimized by his exuberant imagination, never fails to give an accurate picture of nature's beauty. For faithfulness and splendour of descriptive power the representation of the Alpine valley in the Prometheus stands alone in the poetry of savage and solitary Nature.
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