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Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self 1997th Edition
Author(s): S. Haines (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 24 Feb. 1997
- Edition: 1997th
- Language: English
- Print length: 286 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333597079
- ISBN-13: 9780333597071
Book Description
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.
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SIMON HAINES
