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 97
... Alastor exaggerates the incipient moralism of the second paragraph of Shelley's Preface into an overall framework for interpreting the poem . " Shelley accuses the hero of attempting to live in ' self - centred seclusion ' ( N 69 ) ...
... Alastor exaggerates the incipient moralism of the second paragraph of Shelley's Preface into an overall framework for interpreting the poem . " Shelley accuses the hero of attempting to live in ' self - centred seclusion ' ( N 69 ) ...
Page 100
... Alastor . The description of the group's sensibility ( ' a keener and more exquisite perception ' of the ' lovely and divine ' ) anticipates the Preface to Alastor in which such perception becomes too ex- quisite not to be destructive ...
... Alastor . The description of the group's sensibility ( ' a keener and more exquisite perception ' of the ' lovely and divine ' ) anticipates the Preface to Alastor in which such perception becomes too ex- quisite not to be destructive ...
Page 141
... Alastor ' or ' evil daemon'.106 Despite its consequences , there is no evidence to suggest that the education of the Alastor poet was less than ideal . The processes described in Alastor are thoroughly tragic in their inexorable ...
... Alastor ' or ' evil daemon'.106 Despite its consequences , there is no evidence to suggest that the education of the Alastor poet was less than ideal . The processes described in Alastor are thoroughly tragic in their inexorable ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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