Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self

by Simon Haines

Shelley's detractors since Hazlitt have noticed a division in the 'self' of his poems. A central reasoning core fears the passions surrounding it and distrusts the language expressing it. A few of his admirers offer an alternative view of the poems as symbolical pointers to a non-linguistic reality transcending passion; most miss the point, justifying their admiration by referring to the poems' systems of thought. This reading of Shelley's major poems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333597079
• ISBN13: 9780333597071
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"