Shelley and the Apprehension of Life
by
Ross Wilson
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
ISBN-10
1107041228
ISBN-13
9781107041226
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 2013
Print length
241 Pages
Weight
496 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.50 x 1.90 cms
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Set within the wider context of Romantic poetry and the opposition between 'living' and 'embracing life', this book encompasses the whole range of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, published and unpublished, to show that poetry is, for him, an art form that embodies the most basic questions of life.
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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