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Loading... Percy Bysshe Shelley (Writers & Their Work S.)by Paul Hamilton
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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 emphasise the materialisticand 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 onewhich, 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. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.7Literature English English poetry 1800-1837, romantic periodLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |