Percy Bysshe Shelley by Michael O'neill

Percy Bysshe Shelley by Michael O'neill

In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life . The book draws on recent research about the poet and his age, but its sense of the ways in which texts and contexts interact is sharply independent. Issues discussed include Shelley's social background, his radical politics and his complex response to Enlightenment rationalism. O'Neill stresses Shelley's often disappointed search for an audience, connecting it with the growing sophistication of his poetry and poetics. For Shelley, a poet was the 'combined product' of 'internal powers' and 'external influences' (Preface to Prometheus Unbound ); this book explores how such a combination manifests itself in his own writings.

MICHAEL O'NEILL lectures in English at the University of Durham. He is the author of The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and Archievement in Shelley's Poetry and The Stripped Bed (forthcoming), a collection of poems. He is an editor of Poetry Durham.

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ISBN 13	9780333447055
ISBN 10	0333447050
Title	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author	Michael O'neill
Series	Literary Lives
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	1989-10-24
Number of pages	176
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