Shelley's Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays

by Madeleine Callaghan

Book Overview

This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet's art and life. For Shelley, both life and art are transfigured by their relationship with one another where the 'poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one' but is equally bound up with and formed by the society in which he lives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800856601
• ISBN13: 9781800856608
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 296 Pages