Alastor

This dimension of the Poet's existence remains unknown to the Poet, but the narrator marks it strongly: the most striking transition in "Alastor" is the "Meanwhile" that segues from the climactic moment of intellectual enlightenment in the Temple of Dendera to "an Arab Maiden brought his food/Her daily portion ..."

_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

Shelley's description of the East in Alastor, where he discursively depopulates and reduces to ruins the entirety of Eastern territories in order to enable a reframing of the East as pre-modern space situation within

Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece' 2006

That Shelley's novel aims beyond delineating a moral dilemma (regarding the proper use of science, for instance), the shortcomings of a particular male personality-type (e.g. a type like her husband or the Poet in Alastor), or a displaced rehearsal of her grievous experiences with family and childbirth, to a critique of what I'm calling the social fantasy appears with equal force in the plight of the creature.

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

Like the fate of the Poet in Alastor or of the would-be revolutionary Rivers in Wordsworth's The Borderers, Victor Frankenstein's attempt to break free of the social contract ends up merely reiterating its deep structure.

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

In order to accept Homans's reading, one would have to say that Victor's Oedipal desire ( "the predicament of Frankenstein, as of the hero of Alastor, is that of the son in Lacan's revision of the Oedipal crisis" [Homans 148]) functions as a kind of generalized social background in the rest of the novel.

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

Thus in Alastor, in the invocation of Nature [lines 13-15], we find him saying:

Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity 2001

Alastor, is one of the constant and original features of his poetry.

Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

In this it resonates with Alastor, which is described in its preface as being about "one of the most interesting situations of the human mind" (2).

Hemans, Hume and Philosophical Scepticism 2001

'The poem entitled Alastor may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind.

Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude 1901

"The Web of Human Things: Narrative and Identity in Alastor."

_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999