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100	0		_aHamilton, Paul
245	1	0	_aPercy Bysshe Shelley
260			_aNew Delhi _bAtlantic _c2010
300			_a99p.
490	0		_aWriters and Their Work
520			_aThis 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.
650	0		_aEnglish literature-Poetry-Poems
942			_cBK
999			_c29726 _d29726