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 183
... destructive through the inability of the will to restrain or direct it . Poetry , according to Shelley's Coleridge , is : ' A power which comes and goes like dream , And which none can ever trace- Heaven's light on Earth - Truth's ...
... destructive through the inability of the will to restrain or direct it . Poetry , according to Shelley's Coleridge , is : ' A power which comes and goes like dream , And which none can ever trace- Heaven's light on Earth - Truth's ...
Page 209
... destructive sensibility was also seen as the origin of his acute power over the minds of others . This was the description affirmed by William Hazlitt in 1816112 and reaffirmed in John Wilson's review of the fourth canto of Childe ...
... destructive sensibility was also seen as the origin of his acute power over the minds of others . This was the description affirmed by William Hazlitt in 1816112 and reaffirmed in John Wilson's review of the fourth canto of Childe ...
Page 249
... destructive effects of Enlightenment rationalism . It is undeniable that Shelley made criticisms of the misuse of the rational faculty against the imaginative.60 However , he also explored the destructive aspects of the imagination ...
... destructive effects of Enlightenment rationalism . It is undeniable that Shelley made criticisms of the misuse of the rational faculty against the imaginative.60 However , he also explored the destructive aspects of the imagination ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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