Percy Bysshe Shelley
Material type: TextSeries: Writers and Their WorkPublication details: New Delhi Atlantic 2010Description: 99pISBN: 9788126912933Subject(s): English literature-Poetry-PoemsDDC classification: 821 Summary: This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley’s thought and major writings. As an introduction, it stresses his seriousness and sophistication, his poetic brilliance and intellectual courage. More specifically, its readings emphasize the materialistic and corporeal orientation of his work in opposition to a traditional view of him as a Romantic solipsist, a characterisation some of his own statements seem to invite. Fundamentally Shelley is understood here as a vanguard, revolutionary figure who writes for a better democratic future, but one which, paradoxically, he fears may threaten the cultural privilege it took to imagine it. But this pessimism is always the other side of an openness to new associations which continually reform both private and political life, relationship and citizenship.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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821 BRO/G Gerard Manley Hopkins | 821 CRA/M The modern poet: poetry, academia, and knowledge since the 1750's | 821 EVE/J John Keats | 821 HAM/P Percy Bysshe Shelley | 821 LAR/W W.B. Yeats | 821 POE Poem of this century: an abridged version | 821 RAV/M My love- unt o thee |
This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley’s thought and major writings. As an introduction, it stresses his seriousness and sophistication, his poetic brilliance and intellectual courage. More specifically, its readings emphasize the materialistic and corporeal orientation of his work in opposition to a traditional view of him as a Romantic solipsist, a characterisation some of his own statements seem to invite. Fundamentally Shelley is understood here as a vanguard, revolutionary figure who writes for a better democratic future, but one which, paradoxically, he fears may threaten the cultural privilege it took to imagine it. But this pessimism is always the other side of an openness to new associations which continually reform both private and political life, relationship and citizenship.
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