Shelley and the Sublime: An Interpretation of the Major Poems

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Summary

This significant contribution to Shelley studies will interest all serious students of English Romantic poetry and aesthetics.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The sublime in the eighteenth century
Shelley: from empiricism to the sublime
Scepticism and sublime power: 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' and 'Mont Blanc'
The politics of creativity: Prometheus Unbound
Inspiration and the poet's skill: 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'To a Skylark'
Shelley's leisure for fiction: Adonais
Sleepers in the oblivious valley: The Triumph of Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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