Shelley

Attacked by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis, Shelley's poetry has, over the last few decades, enjoyed a revival of critical interest. His radical politics and arrestingly original poetic strategies have been studied from a variety of perspectivesformalist, deconstructionist, new historicist, feminist, and others. Of all the Romantics, Shelley has benefited most from the so-called 'theoretical revolution', as is borne out by the wide range of recent critical work represented in this volume. The thirteen essays selected analyse many of Shelley's finest poems, including Alastor, Julian and Maddalo. Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, and The Triumph of Life.
Michael O'Neill's informed Introduction explores the contours of this debate and the issues at stake in it. Detailed headnotes to the individual essays and a further reading section provide invaluable guides to the reader. This collection illuminates the enduring and contemporary significance of the work of a major poet.