SHELLEY AND DEBUSSY

The aim of this article (which claims neither to exhaust the subject nor to prove that Debussy's music was actually inspired by Shelley's poems) is to show the great affinity there was between both artists, as to subject matter and inspiration, bringing to our minds again the fact that all art is interrelated and how one mans' genius throws light on another's. This unfailing interest and excitement found in the arts, of an artist trying honestly to express the spirit of his age, is the reward we have in letting our sensibility open to their appeal.