The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and Achievement in Shelley's PoetryClarendon Press, 1989 - 216 pàgines This book argues that Percy Shelley's developing capacity to accommodate and explore conflict lies at the heart of his poetic achievement. Focusing particularly on the poetry's language, tones, and imaginative life, O'Neill offers lucid and original readings of Alastor, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" and "Mont Blanc", Julian and Maddalo, The Cenci, Prometheus Unbound, The Witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and The Triumph of Life. Throwing fresh light on the experience of reading Shelley, the book is a sympathetic yet discriminating discussion of a poet who has too often been the object of uncritical admiration or automatic dislike. |
Continguts
The Fluidities of Narrative | 11 |
Privacy and Revelation | 52 |
Language and the Suspected Self | 73 |
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achievement Alastor asserts attempt awareness beauty brings calls Cenci central character concern contrast creates Critical dark death describes desire distinction dream Earth effect emotional example existence experience exploration eyes feeling fictions figurative final gives heart hope human idea ideal imaginative intensity interest involved Julian and Maddalo kind language less light limits lines living London lyrical meaning mind Mont Blanc moon moves nature night object offers once opening passage phrase play poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry possible presence Prometheus Unbound questions reader reading reality reference Romantic scene seems seen sense shadow shape Shelley Shelley's simile soul speak speech spirit stanza suggests symbolic takes things thou thought throughout tone transformed Triumph truth turn universe veil vision visionary voice Wasserman wind Witch of Atlas Wordsworth's writing