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 95
... possible for his desires to point towards objects thus infinite and unmeasured , he is joyous , and tranquil , and self - possessed . But the period arrives when these objects cease to suffice . His mind is at length suddenly awakened ...
... possible for his desires to point towards objects thus infinite and unmeasured , he is joyous , and tranquil , and self - possessed . But the period arrives when these objects cease to suffice . His mind is at length suddenly awakened ...
Page 115
... possible that a person should give a faithful history of his being , from the earliest epochs of his recollection , a picture would be presented such as the world has never contemplated before . A mirror would be held up to all men in ...
... possible that a person should give a faithful history of his being , from the earliest epochs of his recollection , a picture would be presented such as the world has never contemplated before . A mirror would be held up to all men in ...
Page 213
... possible posthumous after - effects . Two fragments reconstructed by Forman also exemplify the manner in which the spark - fire imagery was associated by Shelley with the poet's death and his possible posthumous influence : FIRST ...
... possible posthumous after - effects . Two fragments reconstructed by Forman also exemplify the manner in which the spark - fire imagery was associated by Shelley with the poet's death and his possible posthumous influence : FIRST ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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