Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333597071)

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 and critical prose finds the adverse case more convincing.

Author: S. Haines
ISBN-10: 0333597079
ISBN-13: 9780333597071
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/24/1997
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d