id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4076 To a Skylark - Wikipedia .html text/html 2620 374 79 "To a Skylark" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound by Charles and James Collier in London.[1] Alexander Mackie argued in 1906 that the poem, along with John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale", "are two of the glories of English literature": "The nightingale and the lark for long monopolised poetic idolatry--a privilege they enjoyed solely on account of their pre-eminence as song birds. "The Symbolism of Shelley's 'To a Skylark'." Modern Language Association, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1937), pp. ^ "'Shelley's Skylark', a poem by Thomas Hardy." British Library. ^ The Swan and the Skylark: Cantata by Arthur Goring Thomas, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. (1986) "On Figurative Language: A Reading of Shelley's, Hardy's and Hughes's Skylark Poems," Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 66:1, 205–217. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4076.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4076.txt