Embodying Revolution: The Figure of the Poet in Shelley

by Timothy Clark

A strange figure recurs throughout Shelley's work, a solitary young poet hounded by passion or madness to the grave. This study reveals the figure to be an allegory of a violent revolutionary age. Seen in the context of a largely forgotten ideal that connected introspection with radical politics, Clark demonstrates that Shelley's self-analyses and metaphysical speculations are related to a notion of the poet as an explorer in previously unchartered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198129815
• ISBN13: 9780198129813
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"