Embodying Revolution: The Figure of the Poet in ShelleyClarendon Press, 1989 - 300 pages A strange figure recurs throughout Shelley's work, a solitary young poet hounded by passion or madness to the grave. This study reveals the figure to be an allegory of a violent revolutionary age. Seen in the context of a largely forgotten ideal that connected introspection with radical politics, Clark demonstrates that Shelley's self-analyses and metaphysical speculations are related to a notion of the poet as an explorer in previously unchartered regions of the human mind. He shows that ultimately, the curiously weak Shelleyan poet is really an ambivalent fictional embodiment of the social forces tearing Europe apart in the Romantic age. |
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Page 77
... Similarly , in the idealized account of this relationship in the Dedication to The Revolt of Islam , the poet's love rescues him from the loss of identity that follows his inability to find ' all sympathies in one ! ' ( l . 47 ) . This ...
... Similarly , in the idealized account of this relationship in the Dedication to The Revolt of Islam , the poet's love rescues him from the loss of identity that follows his inability to find ' all sympathies in one ! ' ( l . 47 ) . This ...
Page 114
... Similarly , lines 469-74 describe the poet seeing his own reflection in a withered and ghostly form ' as the human heart / Gazing in dreams over the gloomy grave , / Sees its own treacherous likeness there ' ( emphasis added ) . The ...
... Similarly , lines 469-74 describe the poet seeing his own reflection in a withered and ghostly form ' as the human heart / Gazing in dreams over the gloomy grave , / Sees its own treacherous likeness there ' ( emphasis added ) . The ...
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... similarly , in the Alastor poet's contemplation of his withered and ghostly reflection . It is in this context of mental weakness that the poet nurses the hope that his ideal image has a permanent existence in some realm other than that ...
... similarly , in the Alastor poet's contemplation of his withered and ghostly reflection . It is in this context of mental weakness that the poet nurses the hope that his ideal image has a permanent existence in some realm other than that ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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