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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... object should be proportional to the vivacity with which that object is present to consciousness : things exist in proportion to their presence to the mind . If Hume is implicitly included in Shelley's attack in A Philosophical View of ...
... object should be proportional to the vivacity with which that object is present to consciousness : things exist in proportion to their presence to the mind . If Hume is implicitly included in Shelley's attack in A Philosophical View of ...
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... object that most inspires love . Consequently , this ideal love - object will be a ' soul within our soul ' and inevitably a miniature of ourselves , yet stripped of ' all that we condemn or despise ' and adorned with everything we ...
... object that most inspires love . Consequently , this ideal love - object will be a ' soul within our soul ' and inevitably a miniature of ourselves , yet stripped of ' all that we condemn or despise ' and adorned with everything we ...
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... object it is seeking . The mind becomes both huntsmen and deer , subject and object of its own violence , pursuer and pursued . The same situation was expressed by Shelley's adapta- tion of the myth of Actaeon in Adonais and , less ...
... object it is seeking . The mind becomes both huntsmen and deer , subject and object of its own violence , pursuer and pursued . The same situation was expressed by Shelley's adapta- tion of the myth of Actaeon in Adonais and , less ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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