Mutability

Bysshe Shelley's poem, "Mutability," published in the

Notes 2010

The slow demise of the Poet, then, seems to echo the final stanza of "Mutability": "It is the same!"

_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

The preface, in other words, swerves into an argument against the detached equivalence expressed by "Mutability," and makes distinctions among the world's losers (who appear to be a variegated everybody "who attempt [s] to exist without human sympathy" [70]), that is, both those deluded by "contemptible" error and those deluded by "generous error."

_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism 1999

There is a verse, it is true, in the second of the two detached cantos of "Mutability,"

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

Jo Shapcott takes Costa book of the year award for Of Mutability

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Poet Jo Shapcott has won the Costa Book of the Year award for Of Mutability, a collection of poems partly inspired by her battle against...

Costa Award Goes To Poetry Collection Inspired By Battle Against Breast Cancer BBC News 2011

Poet Jo Shapcott has won the Costa Book of the Year award for Of Mutability, a collection of poems partly inspired by her battle against breast cancer.

Costa Award Goes To Poetry Collection Inspired By Battle Against Breast Cancer BBC News 2011

"Nought may endure but Mutability," wrote Shelley, joining an imposing line of English poets to have tackled this theme of perpetual change, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Wordsworth.

Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott Frances Leviston 2010

In Of Mutability, meanwhile, the female body becomes the plain on which many of the poems are enacted.

Jo Shapcott: I'm not someone chasing her own ambulance 2010

In Of Mutability, for example, the reader doesn't get an account of my experience with breast cancer.

Jo Shapcott: I'm not someone chasing her own ambulance 2010