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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... Rousseau as simply another philosopher of the Enlightenment , useful like Voltaire and Holbach for reference in the notes to Queen Mab , but not yet present as a distinct and peculiar biographical case . References are to be found in ...
... Rousseau as simply another philosopher of the Enlightenment , useful like Voltaire and Holbach for reference in the notes to Queen Mab , but not yet present as a distinct and peculiar biographical case . References are to be found in ...
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... Rousseau of The Triumph of Life is already implicit in Act I of Prometheus Unbound . The Furies passage is virtually a Shelleyan version of Rousseau's first Discours ... Si le rétablisse- ment des sciences et des arts a contribué à ...
... Rousseau of The Triumph of Life is already implicit in Act I of Prometheus Unbound . The Furies passage is virtually a Shelleyan version of Rousseau's first Discours ... Si le rétablisse- ment des sciences et des arts a contribué à ...
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... Rousseau was both obvious and fre- quently made at this time , as Duffy demonstrates.32 Moreover , Shelley himself saw Napoleon as both the heir and the distorter of Rousseau's legacy in the manner these stanzas describe.33 The pairing ...
... Rousseau was both obvious and fre- quently made at this time , as Duffy demonstrates.32 Moreover , Shelley himself saw Napoleon as both the heir and the distorter of Rousseau's legacy in the manner these stanzas describe.33 The pairing ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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