Shelley's Poetry

1. Front Matter

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2. The Case of Shelley

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3. Shelley’s Views of Poetry

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4. Shelley’s Poetry, 1811–17

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5. Shelley’s Poetry, 1818–20

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6. Shelley’s Poetry, 1818–20 (continued)

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7. Shelley’s Poetry, 1821–2

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8. Conclusion: The Divided Self

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9. Back Matter

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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.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• poem
• poetry
• prose
• British and Irish Literature

• Department of English, Australian National University, Australia

  Simon Haines

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