Shelley and the Apprehension of Life
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| Title: | Shelley and the Apprehension of Life |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Ross Wilson |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Life in literature |
| Categories: | POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781107041226 9781107417441 |
