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. The author begins by tracing the origins of Shelley's
poetic theory in eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime. She then
discusses the effect of such a theory on the language of seven of
Shelley's most important poems including 'Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty', Prometheus Unbound, 'Ode to the West Wind', 'To a Skylark'
and Adonais. In these poems the task of political change is
expressed as the prerogative of the inspired poet, who desires to
reunite the fallen language of poetry with the original impulse of
inspiration that it supplants. This significant contribution to
Shelley studies will interest all serious students of English
Romantic poetry and aesthetics.
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