SHELLEY AND THE APPREHENSION OF LIFE by Ross Wilson ( 9781107041226 )

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SHELLEY AND THE APPREHENSION OF LIFE

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Ross Wilson

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 August, 2013

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 101

Pages:

241

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This book establishes Percy Bysshe Shelley's view of poetry as 'living melody' and sets it within the wider context of Romantic-era thought.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the essay 'On Life' (1819), stated 'We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life'. Ross Wilson uses this statement as a starting point to explore Shelley's fundamental beliefs about life and the significance of poetry. Drawing on a wide range of Shelley's own writing and on philosophical thinking from Plato to the present, this book offers a timely intervention in the debate about what Romantic poets understood by 'life'. For Shelley, it demonstrates poetry is emphatically 'living melody', which stands in resolute contrast to a world in which life does not live. Wilson argues that Shelley's concern with the opposition between 'living' and 'the apprehension of life' is fundamental to his work and lies at the heart of Romantic-era thought.

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