Shelley’s ‘The Wandering Jew’ is a narrative poem much unlike his works on popular protest and revolution and in my opinion much worse. It narrates the cursing of Paulo, a Jew who mocked Christ as he was crucified and hence was cursed to wander earth until the second coming, 600 years later he forces himself into a relationship with a girl called Rosa. The poem contained a few nice depictions of nature and a detailed account of torture in Hell which was an interesting depiction, but generally the narrative between the cantos felt disjointed and hard to follow. Not to mention the poem was extremely anti-semitic and the limited plot events seemed to just occur with little explanation. It’s far from Shelley’s best.