Description
Attacked by T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis, Shelley's poetry has, over the last few decades, enjoyed a revival of critical interest. His radical politics and arrestingly original poetic strategies have been studied from a variety of perspectives - formalist, deconstructionist, new historicist, feminist and others. Of all the Romantics, Shelly has benefited most from the so-called 'theoretical revolution', as is borne out by the wide range of recent critical work represented in this volume. The 134 essays selected analyse many of Shelley's finest poems, including Alastor, Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais and The Triumph of Life. Michael O'Neill's informed Introduction explores the contours of this debate. Detailed headnotes to the individual essays, explanations of difficult terms, and a further reading section provide invaluable guides to the reader. This collection illuminates the enduring and contemporary significance of the work of a major poet.
Table of Contents
General Editors窶� Preface, Michael O窶冢eill; Chapter 1 Introduction, Michael O窶冢eill; Chapter 2 Destructive Creativity: Alastor (1815), Timothy Clark; Chapter 3, Frances Ferguson; Chapter 4 Shelley窶冱 Doubles: An Approach to Julian and Maddalo, Kelvin Everest; Chapter 5 Unchaining Mythography: Prometheus Unbound, Jerrold E. Hogle; Chapter 6 Shelley窶冱 Perplexity, Prometheus Unbound, Isobel Armstrong; Chapter 7 The Politics of Reception, The Cenci, William A. Ulmer; Chapter 8 The Exoteric Political Poems, Stephen C. Behrendt; Chapter 9 The Dramatic Lyric, 窶楼de to the West Wind窶�, Ronald Tetreault; Chapter 10 Love窶冱 Universe: Epipsychidion, Stuart M. Sperry; Chapter 11, Peter Sacks; Chapter 12 Shelley窶冱 Last Lyrics, William Keach; Chapter 13 Shelley窶冱 窶狼he Triumph of Life窶�, J. Hillis Miller; Chapter 14 Idealism and Skepticism in Shelley窶冱 Poetry, The Triumph of Life and Alastor, Tllottama Rajan;
