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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