Wordsworth as the Prototype of the Poet in Shelley's Alastor

Abstract

From the notice in the Monthly Review in 1816 to the most recent investigations Alastor has remained an enigma to Shelley's critics. A century of criticism has done little to throw light on the mystery. The contemporary notice in the Monthly Review attributes the confusion of Alastor to the influence of Wordsworth: We must candidly own that these poems are beyond our comprehension; and we did not obtain a clew to their sublime obscurity, till an address to Mr. Wordsworth explained in what school the author had formed his taste.

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