Shelleys Italian Experience

by Alan M. Weinberg

Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet's four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333497627
• ISBN13: 9780333497623
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"