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 108
... hope is that the mind may be an autonomous power in its own right , able to realize its own ideal through its own activity : Ah ! wherefore didst thou build thine hope On the false earth's inconstancy ? Did thine own mind afford no ...
... hope is that the mind may be an autonomous power in its own right , able to realize its own ideal through its own activity : Ah ! wherefore didst thou build thine hope On the false earth's inconstancy ? Did thine own mind afford no ...
Page 129
... hope ' and ' despair ' become almost synonymous . For example , when the poet first conceives of pursuing the image into the realms of sleep and death , this thought is immediately a ' doubt ' . The sentence shifts at once from hope to ...
... hope ' and ' despair ' become almost synonymous . For example , when the poet first conceives of pursuing the image into the realms of sleep and death , this thought is immediately a ' doubt ' . The sentence shifts at once from hope to ...
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... hope , though hope was now despair- Indue the colours of this change , As from the all - surrounding air The earth takes hues obscure and strange , When storm and earthquake linger there . ( 11. 721-31 ) 75 Bod . MS Shelley adds . e . 8 ...
... hope , though hope was now despair- Indue the colours of this change , As from the all - surrounding air The earth takes hues obscure and strange , When storm and earthquake linger there . ( 11. 721-31 ) 75 Bod . MS Shelley adds . e . 8 ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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