ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, poem in seven stanzas by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in the summer of 1816. The poem, a philosophical musing, contains references to Shelley’s childhood, when he first recognized the intangible spirit of beauty alive in the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “Intellectual Beauty” of the poem’s title does not refer to the beauty of the mind or of the working intellect, but rather to the intellectual idea of beauty, abstracted in this poem to the “Spirit of Beauty, ” whose shadow comes and goes over human hearts.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 and published in 1817.

Detailed explanation-4: -On becoming aware of the existence of Intellectual Beauty, Shelley pledged himself to its service. He vowed that he would dedicate himself and his faculties to the worship of Intellectual Beauty and all it stands for. And he has kept the vow.