This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelley, this most nebulous of realities represents, first and foremost, possibility: Shelley’s poetic writings on death are both numerous and varied, presenting his reader, with differing degrees of confidence over the course of his brief but brilliant career, with several key visions of what death might be or actually is. Shelley’s Visions of Death stresses the seldom-appreciated fact that death was one of Shelley’s most enduring preoccupations, and also demonstrates the poet’s power to imagine, with startling variety, that which lies beyond the boundaries of experience.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Andrew Lacey
EAN: 9783031495397
COUNTRY: Switzerland
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-02-12
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Cultural studies
Andrew Lacey is a scholar of the literature and culture of the Romantic period. In the last decade, he has worked as Senior Research Associate, on the Davy Notebooks Project and the Davy Letters Project, in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. He assisted in the preparation of The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (4 volumes, 2020) and Volume Four of The Poems of Shelley in the Longman Annotated English Poets series (2014). He is Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and a former winner of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Keats-Shelley Prize.
