Enduring myths

Surely the most enduring myth associated with writers and artists: the misunderstood, tortured, sensitive soul in pursuit of Truth and Beauty, in a sordid world of the commonplace.

clipped from www.todayinliterature.com Tortured Romantics On this day in 1821 Percy Shelley's "Adonais," his elegy to John Keats, was published in England in the Literary Chronicle. The poem has become a cornerstone document for those interested in Shelley (left) or Keats, or in all that is best and incredible in Romanticism. By linking Keats's death at the age of twenty-five to the Adonis myth, Shelley helped immortalize the idea of the 'tortured Romantic,' he who has one eye upwards on the pursuit of Beauty and Truth, and one downwards on all that is in pursuit of him.