id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8617 Adonais - Wikipedia .html text/html 3470 368 79 (/ˌædoʊˈneɪ.ɪs/) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works.[1] The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats' death (seven weeks earlier). Fellow poets mourn the death of Keats: Byron, Thomas Moore, Shelley, and Leigh Hunt (sts. The title of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (1967) is an allusion to the Shelley elegy, Stanza 47, line 415. "Percy Shelley: Adonais", John Keats (12 February 2004). "Percy Shelley: Adonais", John Keats (12 February 2004). "Shelley's Adonais and John Keats." Essays in Criticism, 57(3), pp. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8617.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8617.txt