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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... close to total extinction in the so - called dark ages . 103 Shelley conceived of literature in terms of power and consequently saw its relation to society more in terms of a process of political struggle than in terms of de Staël's ...
... close to total extinction in the so - called dark ages . 103 Shelley conceived of literature in terms of power and consequently saw its relation to society more in terms of a process of political struggle than in terms of de Staël's ...
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... close as to enable him to describe Keats's poems , after his death , as ' the astonishing remnants of his mind'.16 Similarly , the power of Rousseau's novel Julie17 is precisely ' the divine beauty of Rousseau's imagination ' . 18 ...
... close as to enable him to describe Keats's poems , after his death , as ' the astonishing remnants of his mind'.16 Similarly , the power of Rousseau's novel Julie17 is precisely ' the divine beauty of Rousseau's imagination ' . 18 ...
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... close descendant of the maniac of Julian and Maddalo . His disintegration , conse- quent upon his isolation , is yet inseparable from his function as the bearer of an imaginative power which will have beneficial posthumous effects . The ...
... close descendant of the maniac of Julian and Maddalo . His disintegration , conse- quent upon his isolation , is yet inseparable from his function as the bearer of an imaginative power which will have beneficial posthumous effects . The ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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