Shelley and the sublime : an interpretation of the major poems
This book presents a major reassessment of Shelley's poetry. Whereas other criticism has stressed the philosophical and political concerns of his poetry in isolation, Angela Leighton argues that Shelley's philosophy and politics are presented as problems of poetic utterance and are this inseparable from his aesthetics.
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x, 195 p
9780521272025, 9780521250894, 0521272025, 0521250897
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Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. The sublime in the eighteenth century; 2. Shelley: from empiricism to the sublime; 3. Scepticism and sublime power: 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' and 'Mont Blanc'; 4. The politics of creativity: Prometheus Unbound; 5. Inspiration and the poet's skill: 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'To a Skylark'; 6. Shelley's leisure for fiction: Adonais; 7. Sleepers in the oblivious valley: The Triumph of Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index.