Shelley’s Idealism in His Poetry: Shelley was a magnificent idealist. “Shelley,” says Elton, “is more constantly a poet of the idealizing type than any other except possibly Spenser. If Byron is a great interpreter of revolutionary iconoclasm, Shelley on the contrary, is a great revolutionary idealist, and a poetic prophet of faith and hope in a … Continue reading Shelley’s Idealism in His Poetry