PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
I: Introduction:
Class; politics and religion; relationships 

744/701-"Mutability" (1816)
--All things are ephemeral, subject to change. If so, where does the atheist find stable principles for living?

[744-5/701-2 "To Wordsworth" (1816)
Mutability? From radical to conservative?]

 768/725-"Ozymandias" (1818)
Mutability and art (sculpture, poetry)

772/730 "Ode to the West Wind" (1820)
--Apostrophe (O!) & A Prayer for Inspiration
--Structure: 5 sonnets in terza rima with a concluding couplet
1= earth; 2= air; 3= water: strophe
4=all: antistrophe
5 fire=unextinguished hearth: stand

--The Paradox? [Something like this: I'm feeling utterly depleted and unable to write a single line of good poetry. In despair, I sing a song of praise to the West Wind, praying him to inspire me. In the process of uttering my prayer, I write an ode that itself brings into being all the poetic power that I felt I was lacking in the first place!]