Embodying Revolution: The Figure of the Poet in ShelleyA 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 79
... poetic forces than it is a product of them . The identity of poetry with the processes that constitute the idol of all personal desire is evident in the fact that poetry , no less than love , ' creates for us a being within our being ...
... poetic forces than it is a product of them . The identity of poetry with the processes that constitute the idol of all personal desire is evident in the fact that poetry , no less than love , ' creates for us a being within our being ...
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... poet of Alastor and figures derived from the sensibility tradition , such as the hero of Godwin's Fleetwood , + James Beattie's Edwin , the hero of his study of the poetic identity The Minstrel , and Rousseau's portraits of himself in ...
... poet of Alastor and figures derived from the sensibility tradition , such as the hero of Godwin's Fleetwood , + James Beattie's Edwin , the hero of his study of the poetic identity The Minstrel , and Rousseau's portraits of himself in ...
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... poet glimpses some beautiful flowers in his path . The Power , manifesting itself in the very impulses that move the poet ... poetic inspiration itself . Likewise , the destruction suffered by the hero of Alastor will become a necessary ...
... poet glimpses some beautiful flowers in his path . The Power , manifesting itself in the very impulses that move the poet ... poetic inspiration itself . Likewise , the destruction suffered by the hero of Alastor will become a necessary ...
Contents
SelfAnalysis and Sensibility | 13 |
The Literary Context of Sensibility | 44 |
Questions of Personal Identity | 65 |
Copyright | |
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