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 34
... expression of those opinions , entire phrases , when we would philosophise . Our whole style of expression and sentiment is infected with the tritest plagiarisms . Our words are dead , our thoughts are cold and borrowed . ( J vii . 62 ) ...
... expression of those opinions , entire phrases , when we would philosophise . Our whole style of expression and sentiment is infected with the tritest plagiarisms . Our words are dead , our thoughts are cold and borrowed . ( J vii . 62 ) ...
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... expression attaches to a bad man through life , and the man and the expression are but one and the same in the judgement of the public . Here , then , is another moral utility resulting from literary talent . . . . Although this passage ...
... expression attaches to a bad man through life , and the man and the expression are but one and the same in the judgement of the public . Here , then , is another moral utility resulting from literary talent . . . . Although this passage ...
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... expression in the writing of poetry . He states ' The very love which lock'd me to my chain / Hath lightened half its weight . . . ' ( ll . 144-5 ) . Shelley's exploration of the closely related situation of his maniac is in strong ...
... expression in the writing of poetry . He states ' The very love which lock'd me to my chain / Hath lightened half its weight . . . ' ( ll . 144-5 ) . Shelley's exploration of the closely related situation of his maniac is in strong ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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