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This handbook takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies beyond the current scholarship. It consists of forty-two chapters written by a prestigious international cast of established and emerging scholar-critics, and offers the most wide-ranging single-volume body of writings on Shelley. The volume builds on the textual revolution in Shelley studies, which has transformed...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an extraordinary poet, playwright and essayist, revolutionary in ideas, artistic theory and practice. This looks at Shelley's life and includes details on the basics of his poetry, prose and drama, his view of philosophy and his role in emerging views about ecology.

Commentaries on Shelley's sensitive nature poetry and its place in 19th-century Romanticism.

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...

This book presents biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on Percy Shelley's poetry, including "Ozymandias," "To a Skylark," "Ode to the West Wind," and others.