Shelley and the Apprehension of Life

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Establishes Percy Bysshe Shelley's view of poetry as 'living melody' and sets it within the wider context of Romantic-era thought. Cover Shelley and the Apprehension of Life Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction chapter one Poetry and the theory of life Shelley’s ‘lyricised science’? True theory/living death Thought of life Triple brass chapter two Living losing life The curse of this life The mist of familiarity The politics of custom chapter three Mere wheels of work The sale of human life They do not repine Life as punishment Conditioned life chapter four Happier forms The non-existent universe Forms more real Poetry’s radical hybridity The lives of trees Here, oh hear! chapter five Sounds of air Apprehension and the poet Peacock’s prudent omissions Sounds of air The pain of change, the change of pain chapter six Poetry and the life of theory Untheorised attention Process of erosion Dante’s hail, Shelley’s rain Bacon’s leap The intervention of excitement The living line Coda Notes Introduction 1 Poetry and the theory of life 2 Living losing life 3 Mere wheels of work 4 Happier forms 5 Sounds of air 6 Poetry and the life of theory Coda Bibliography Index Series