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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Percy Bysshe Shelley"”.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: vengeance as a vehicle for presenting his moral principles
… poet, with the possible exception of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley has been attacked by critics who argue that in both his personal life and in his poetry and prose writings, he was immoral. Regardless of what may be said against Shelley's personal life, as a writer he is profoundly moralistic …
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Public quarrelling in the Romantic period: the rhetorical styles of John Burgoyne, Thomas Paine, William Cobbett, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
… (1737-1809), William Cobbett (1763-1835), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). All four authors engaged in radical writing about war, politics and various controversial social issues during the American War of Independence and the Regency period (1811-1820). This study situates their political …
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Certain evidences of classical Greek influence on Shelley
… motivation from classical sources. The case of Percy Bysshe Shelley, nineteenth century English Romantic poet, provides an excellent illustration of this point. This study will attemp to place before the reader evidence of Shelley's debt to ancient Greece as revealed in his life and his poetry, …
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The Ethics of the Ode: The Ancient Tradition and Two Modern Examples
… (though otherwise very different modern poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Chapter three discusses the ways in which Shelley used the ode form as a means of championing both his own poetry and his revolutionary political ideals. Chapter four discusses Hopkins's famous ode …
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Sir William Jones and Representations of Hinduism in British Poetry, 1784-1812
… William Jones, William Blake, Robert Southey and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The study argues that Jones’ sympathetic and syncretic representations of Hinduism in his nine ‘Hymns’ to Hindu deities (1784-1789) influenced the use of Hinduism within the works of these later Romantic poets. It is interested …
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
… disputes play out in reprints of the works by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Southey that became cornerstones of radical culture. The dissertation goes on to discuss how the underground economy of literary piracy affected Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron's publication strategies, the …
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Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet
… the poems of William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley reveals the variant use of caesura, creative dissonance, as well as original organization and rhyme scheme to accomplish purely Romantic goals within the uniformity of the sonnet form.</p>
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Geological bodies: Form and process in romantic poetry and geology
… Reading poetry by Charlotte Smith, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth I reveal the cultural entanglements among geology, poetry, and the human body and its history. Putting geological and poetic forms into conversation with one another, I also argue that the Romantic …
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Robert Lowth's Hebraic Sublime and the "Ample Field of Poetry"
… as an organization. This trajectory ends with Percy Bysshe Shelley, who affirms the prophetic authority enabled by Lowth’s Hebraic sublime, but without the rhetoric he described nor the Christianity that motivated his study.
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Poetic Madness and the Reception of British Romanticism 1800-1870
… and their poetry in particular: William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare. It discusses how these writers contributed to, or interwove with their own life and art, new and rediscovered mythologies of poetic madness; anticipating and resisting the public images of journalism or …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… of William Godwin, George Colman the Younger, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, I uncover a radical Romantic aesthetic that critiques the politics of witness and privileges the politics of social implication. We are accustomed to thinking of Romantic literature as …
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Frankenstein: a monstrous romanticism
… is to examine the relationship between Mary Shelley's first novel Frankenstein and her own understanding of Romanticism. The overarching theme is to illustrate how Mary Shelley navigates her criticism of Romanticism through the medium of Victor Frankenstein as a character. With the inspection …
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"Is Not the Past All Shadow?": History and Vision in Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats
… British postwar authors--namely, Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats--engage and challenge the ideas and ideals of visionary poetics and so assert new perspectives on literary prophecy in contradistinction to the first wave Romantics' aesthetic values and tenets. Over the course of this …