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Shelley’s Major Verse: The Narrative and Dramatic Poetry
Stuart M. Sperry
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Hardback. Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In contrast, Sperry's book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet's childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley's relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a “beautiful and ineffectual angel,” in Arnold’s words. In contrast, Stuart Sperry’s book emphasizes the life forces originating in the poet’s childhood that impelled and shaped his career, and reasserts Shelley’s relevance to the social and cultural dilemmas of contemporary life.
Concentrating on the major narrative and dramatic poems and the patterns of development they reveal, Sperry reintegrates Shelley’s poetry with his life by showing how, following the traumatic events of his early years, the poet sought to preserve and extend those life impulses by creating a network ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674806252
SKU
V9780674806252
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Shelley’s Major Verse: The Narrative and Dramatic Poetry
To trace the life force of his poetry and its transformation and efflorescence in the course of his development, Sperry has taken Shelley’s eight major poetic works—Queen Mab, Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound Acts I–IV, The Cenci, The Witch of Atlas, Epipsychidion, and The Triumph of Love—and examined them chronologically within the context of the poet’s life. Supported ... Read more