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Shelley's Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays (Hardcover)
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Shelley's Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 69
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This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads
the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the
poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the
poet's art and life. For Shelley, both life and art are
transfigured by their relationship with one another where the 'poet
participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one' but is
equally bound up with and formed by the society in which he lives
and the past that he inherits. Callaghan shows that the
distinctiveness of Shelley's work comes to rest on its
wrong-footing of any neat division of life and art. The dazzling
intensity of Shelley's poetry and drama lies in its refusal to
separate the twain as Shelley explores and finally explodes the
boundaries between what is personal and what is poetic. Arguing
that the critic, like the artist, cannot ignore the conditions of
the poet's life, Callaghan reveals how Shelley's artistry
reconfigures and redraws the actual in his poetry. The book shows
how Shelley's poetic daring lies in troubling the distinction
between poetry as aesthetic work hermetically sealed against life,
and poetry as a record of the emotional life of the poet.
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