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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Shelley, Percy Bysshe"”.
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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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Shelley as a dramatist.
… purpose of this study is to show another side of Shelley's intellectual development--his experiments as a dramatist.
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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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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
… of exile as it is presented by Milton, Shelley and Byron. Utilizing biopolitical theory as a lens, it posits that the Satanic iteration or narrative of exile embodies the reality of worldly exile. As such the dissertation explores the complex framing and subsequent deconstruction of …
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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 Celt and Shelley : a study of certain contrasts and resemblances between Welsh literature and Shelley's poetry
… attempt to compare and contrast the outstanding Shelleyan qualities which have been quite generally accepted with those of the Cymric Celts. But it is quite evident by the very limitation of time and space at our disposal, that the present treatment of style in the Celt and Shelley must be …
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The prophetic imagination of P. B. Shelley
<p>In his “Defence of Poetry,” Shelley claims, “Poets… were called in the earlier epochs of the world legislators or prophets.” As such, even a cursory glance at Shelley’s poetry and political beliefs reveals an interest in what is wrong with the world, how to fix it, and what will happen if no …
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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 …