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Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Literary Life

By Michael O’Neill (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1989
ISBN
978-0-333-44705-5, 978-1-349-20294-2
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-20294-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20346900 bytes)
Series
Macmillan Literary Lives
Edition
1
Pages
X, 176\186
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Poetry and Poetics; Nineteenth-Century Literature

Description

In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life . The book draws on recent research about the poet and his age, but its sense of the ways in which texts and contexts interact is sharply independent. Issues discussed include Shelley's social background, his radical politics and his complex response to Enlightenment rationalism. O'Neill stresses Shelley's often disappointed search for an audience, connecting it with the growing sophistication of his poetry and poetics. For Shelley, a poet was the 'combined product' of 'internal powers' and 'external influences' (Preface to Prometheus Unbound ); this book explores how such a combination manifests itself in his own writings.

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