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 120
... death seem about to be answered . As with the acute perceptual state imaged at the opening of Alastor , silence is ... death is mild And terrorless as this serenest night : Here could I hope , like some inquiring child Sporting on graves ...
... death seem about to be answered . As with the acute perceptual state imaged at the opening of Alastor , silence is ... death is mild And terrorless as this serenest night : Here could I hope , like some inquiring child Sporting on graves ...
Page 141
... death is paradoxi- cally described as ' A splendour among shadows , a bright blot / Upon this gloomy scene ' ( emphasis added ) . A manuscript version of the poem places its speaker in the same position as the narrator in Alastor . He ...
... death is paradoxi- cally described as ' A splendour among shadows , a bright blot / Upon this gloomy scene ' ( emphasis added ) . A manuscript version of the poem places its speaker in the same position as the narrator in Alastor . He ...
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... death . In the midst of civil war with Vitellius ( his successor to the throne ) and long before the conflict was decided , Otho is said to have decided to commit suicide to prevent further destruction.49 Shelley's poem stresses the ...
... death . In the midst of civil war with Vitellius ( his successor to the throne ) and long before the conflict was decided , Otho is said to have decided to commit suicide to prevent further destruction.49 Shelley's poem stresses the ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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