Shelley's Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays (Liverpool English Texts and Studies LUP)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786940248 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Madeleine Callaghan is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.
About the AuthorMadeleine Callaghan is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.
Arguing that the critic, like the artist, cannot ignore the conditions of the poet's life, Callaghan reveals how Shelley's artistry reconfigures and redraws the actual in his poetry. 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. Callaghan shows that the distinctiveness of Shelley's work comes to rest on its wrong-footing of any neat division of life and art. The book shows how Shelley's poetic daring lies in troubling the distinction between poetry as aesthetic work hermetically sealed against life, and poetry as a record of the emotional life of the poet.. The dazzling intensity of Shelley's poetry and drama lies in its refusal to separate the twain as Shelley explores and finally exp