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 152
... moral status of the self and with the perfection of the will , rather than with the establishment of identity and with the growing pattern of consciousness , makes it impossible for him to take a very significant place in the tradition ...
... moral status of the self and with the perfection of the will , rather than with the establishment of identity and with the growing pattern of consciousness , makes it impossible for him to take a very significant place in the tradition ...
Page 153
... morally involved in the truth he discovers before he can make that truth effective , and poetry , by exercising the imagina- tion of the reader and expanding his mind to include things which are beyond his present moral scope , prepares ...
... morally involved in the truth he discovers before he can make that truth effective , and poetry , by exercising the imagina- tion of the reader and expanding his mind to include things which are beyond his present moral scope , prepares ...
Page 154
... moral knowledge and the moral act , and the link which may serve to unite them is the imagination , which is Shelley's human equivalent for the divine grace which he cannot conceive , at least in Christian terms . Between the knowl ...
... moral knowledge and the moral act , and the link which may serve to unite them is the imagination , which is Shelley's human equivalent for the divine grace which he cannot conceive , at least in Christian terms . Between the knowl ...
Contents
PROLOGUE I | 1 |
Lyrical Drama | 40 |
The Regeneration of Prometheus | 53 |
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