Shelley's Later Poetry: A Study of His Prophetic ImaginationUsing Prometheus Unbound as its organizing center, this book describes the materials and traces the unfinished argument of Shelley's poetry in his Italian period. |
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Page 177
... decay . Shelley's architectural bent and his ex- perience in Italy often inspired him to present this last figure more specifically as a city , group of buildings , or even a single structure , decaying and disintegrating . The images ...
... decay . Shelley's architectural bent and his ex- perience in Italy often inspired him to present this last figure more specifically as a city , group of buildings , or even a single structure , decaying and disintegrating . The images ...
Page 189
... decay . But Mahomet is resigned to the cycles of history and does not complain . He simply looks forward to Mah- mud's descent into the world of death , where they will rule over the ruins of Islam together . I quote Mahomet's speech at ...
... decay . But Mahomet is resigned to the cycles of history and does not complain . He simply looks forward to Mah- mud's descent into the world of death , where they will rule over the ruins of Islam together . I quote Mahomet's speech at ...
Page 245
... decay ; ( VII ) · • · now it is a sepulcher , where " ages , empires , and religions Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought " ( XLVIII ) . Amid these ruins of time , Keats is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention ...
... decay ; ( VII ) · • · now it is a sepulcher , where " ages , empires , and religions Lie buried in the ravage they have wrought " ( XLVIII ) . Amid these ruins of time , Keats is gathered to the kings of thought Who waged contention ...
Contents
PROLOGUE I | 1 |
Lyrical Drama | 40 |
The Regeneration of Prometheus | 53 |
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Act Four Adonais Alastor anapestic Apollo Asia Asia's Beatrice beauty bright cave Cenci Chaos chariot Christian clouds critic curse Dante dark death decay deep Demogorgon depicts describes divine drama dream Earth earthly Emily Epipsychidion eternal Euganean Hills evil figure flowers Furies goal Greek hate Heaven Hellas human imagery imagination immortality Italian Jupiter Keats light lines living lyric Mary Shelley millennium Milton mind mirror moon moral mountains mutability nature Orsino Panthea Paradise passage passion pavilion Percy Bysshe Shelley perhaps play poem poet poetic Preface Promethean Prometheus Unbound prose Queen Mab R. S. Thomas radical regeneration revenge Revolt of Islam ruin scene seems self-contempt self-love shadow Shelley Shelley's Platonic simply slaves sleep song soul spirit stanza suggests sweet T. S. Eliot temptation thee things thou thought throne tion Tmolus tower veil verse vision voice wind words