...visionary and idealistic to be worthy of consideration by serious men. Like Shelley, he is apt to be a "beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." Finally, the things in which the artist is interested, which are the very breath of life to him, are...

...painting in their own minds that shrill and seraphic figure whom Matthew Arnold would impale as "Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." Whittaker to bring out a "new edition" in 1823. Because his daughter was still in Italy at this point,...

...they may be right in their conclusions and I may be wrong; but I do not think so. As the law is not "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," but is a creature of man, dwelling on the earth with men, touching them at every point in all their...

..."Shelley," in Essays in Criticism: Second Series (1888). "And in poetry, no less than in life, he is a beautiful 'and ineffectual' angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." The implication of Lyster's remark is that Shelley was another Hamlet. 9.12 (184:14). he corantoed...

...Russell Lowell (1819-1891) American poet, editor of Alexander Pope In poetry, no less than in life, he is "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet, critic ofSheltey He found in stones the sermons he had already...

...fish-eaten body was cremated. The most famous description of Shelley is by Matthew Arnold who calls him "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." Shelley's poetry had an enormous influence on the young Bertrand Russell, who memorized many of the...

...radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.27 Holding on to his angel, Arnold bemoans the appearance of Dowden's biography of Percy Bysshe...

...force. In a phrase sometimes quoted out of context to support the view of Shelley as Matthew Arnold's "beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," the speaker cries, "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" This borrowing of Keats's phrase in "Sleep...

...furl'd for six Months together" (Letters, 2:323). So does the conclusion of Matthew Arnold's estimate: "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."7 Attempting to save his hero ("our former beautiful and lovable Shelley" [p. 213]) from the...

...contemporaries; — either Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium ; or Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. Wordsworth and Byron stand out by themselves. When the year 1900 is turned, and our nation comes to...