Adonais

One, a stained glass dome.

James quoted the romantic poet Percy Shelley's Adonais, "Life like a dome of many colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity." James suggested that raw universal consciousness fills the cosmos, but our physical brains act like colored glass, filtering and restricting that absolute light into individual human thoughts.

If you shatter the glass, the light isn't destroyed.

It simply returns to its unfiltered state.

For it is a tale more fit for the weird winter nights than for these garish summer days when we scarcely believe much more than we can see.

End of section 48 The Witch of Atlas by Percy Bysshe Shelley Recording by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio Section 49 of Shelley Selected Poems and Prose This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Leonard Wilson Section 49 Preface to Adonais It is my intention to subjoin to the London edition of this poem a criticism upon the claims of its lamented object to be classed among the writers of the highest genius who have adorned our age.

My known repugnance to the narrow principles of taste on which several of his earlier compositions were modelled prove at least that I am an impartial judge.

I consider the fragment of Hyperion as second to nothing that was ever produced by a writer of the same years.

His conduct is a golden augury of the success of his future career.

May the unextinguished spirit of his illustrious friend animate the creations of his pencil and plead against oblivion for his name.

End of section 49, Preface to Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Recording by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio.

For it is a tale more fit for the weird winter nights than for these garish summer days when we scarcely believe much more than we can see.

End of section 48, The Witch of Atlas by Percy Bysshe Shelley Recording by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio Section 49 of Shelley Selected Poems and Prose This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Leonard Wilson Section 49 Preface to Adonais It is my intention to subjoin to the London edition of this poem a criticism upon the claims of its lamented object to be classed among the writers of the highest genius who have adorned our age.

My known repugnance to the narrow principles of taste on which several of his earlier compositions were modeled prove at least that I am an impartial judge.

I consider the fragment of Hyperion as second to nothing that was ever produced by a writer of the same years.

His conduct is a golden augury of the success of his future career.

May the unextinguished spirit of his illustrious friend animate the creations of his pencil, and plead against oblivion for his name.

End of section forty-nine, Preface to Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Recording by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio.

Recording by Leonard Wilson.

Section 49, Preface to Adonais.

It is my intention to subjoin to the London edition of this poem a criticism upon the claims of its lamented object to be classed among the writers of the highest genius who have adorned our age.

My known repugnance to the narrow principles of taste on which several of his earlier compositions were modelled prove at least that I am an impartial judge.

His conduct is a golden augury of the success of his future career.

May the unextinguished spirit of his illustrious friend animate the creations of his pencil and plead against oblivion for his name.

End of section 49, Preface to Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Recording by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio.