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| author |
Lori Ann Shelley
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Shelley's Visionary Poetry: An Analysis of Five Poems
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[from the introduction:] As a second generation Romantic, Percy Bysshe Shelley distinguished himself from his predecessors like Wordsworth and Coleridge by reintegrating myth into poetry. Myth as an integral ingredient to man's imagination provides the basis for Shelley's visionary work. Prometheus Unbound, though paramount among Shelley's mythic and visionary poems, is beyond the scope of this thesis. The poetry represented here, however, spans a decade of Shelley's life. Shelley was nineteen years old when he created his first visionary work in "Queen Mab." His repeated use of vision in poetry came to a climatic end in 1822 with his last unfinished poem, The Triumph of Life. The poems examined in this thesis chronologically illustrate Shelley's developing vision as a chameleon of thought, feeling, darkness, and light.
| | school |
The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University
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M.A. (1986)
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| full text | LShelley.pdf |
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