...world." And in a brilliant sentence that has often been quoted, Matthew Arnold writes of Shelley as a " Beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." For an ineffectual angel, however, it seems that Shelley has made considerable impression in literature....

...Shelley's unreality and idealism, as the result of such influences, that led Matthew Arnold to call him "A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings." All his early poems are autobiographical, but later became objective. Nearly all authors are subjective...

...realized on the earth. There was, of course, much of the dreamer in Shelley; but to call him with Arnold "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," is to do him scant justice. For in some respects—as witness his sympathy for animals, his hatred...

...practicality, from facing the issues squarely. There is much truth in Arnold's dictum that Shelley was a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the. void his luminous wings in vain. It was against these very qualities of abstractness and aloofness plus the consequent utopian cast...

...and cruelties. Matthew Arnold, paraphrasing Joubert's description of Plato, has characterized him as 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' This is largely true, but it overlooks the sound general basis and the definite actual results which...

...Cenci's curso, are obvious. In style the play is singularly unlike most of Shelley's poetry. Here is no " T remember Two miles on this side of the fort, the road Crosses a deep ravine ; none of the nu-ltiii-1 imagery, full of beauty and transcendental feeling but intellectually baffling,...

...regions of the poet's thought, he passes out to us, with almost jaunty satisfaction, his neat formula: "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." To those of us who have felt a trifle undernourished by this formula, Professor Wylie's essay offers...

...Naturally, he lived in continual rebellion against existing conditions — was what Matthew Arnold called "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." In Queen Mab, The Revolt oj Islam and Prometheus Unbound, his theme is the complete liberation of the...

...Coleridge, and Keats. The delicacy of his nature led Arnold to describe him with felicity as "Shelley, beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." The truth of this characterization at once becomes 384 apparent to anybody who studies his longer poems....

...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...