Shelley and the Sublime: An Interpretation of the Major Poems

by Angela Leighton

Book Overview

This book presents a major reassessment of Shelley's poetry. Whereas other criticism has stressed the philosophical and political concerns of his poetry in isolation, Angela Leighton argues that Shelley's philosophy and politics are presented as problems of poetic utterance and are this inseparable from his aesthetics. The author begins by tracing the origins of Shelley's poetic theory in eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime. She then discusses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521272025
• ISBN13: 9780521272025
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"