Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the essay 'On Life' (1819), stated 'We
live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life'. Ross
Wilson uses this statement as a starting point to explore Shelley's
fundamental beliefs about life and the significance of poetry.
Drawing on a wide range of Shelley's own writing and on
philosophical thinking from Plato to the present, this book offers
a timely intervention in the debate about what Romantic poets
understood by 'life'. For Shelley, it demonstrates poetry is
emphatically 'living melody', which stands in resolute contrast to
a world in which life does not live. Wilson argues that Shelley's
concern with the opposition between 'living' and 'the apprehension
of life' is fundamental to his work and lies at the heart of
Romantic-era thought.
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