79. To Percy Bysshe Shelley, 15 December 1818

2001 ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Thomas Love Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jacqueline Mulhallen, Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-111
Author(s):  
Daniel Westwood
Keyword(s):  
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Madness Writing Poetry/ Poetry Writing Madness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
John Keats ◽  
William Blake ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
The Public ◽  
John Clare ◽  
Romantic Poetry

The final chapter returns to the scene of Romantic poetry, looking at poetry by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare. It reads these Romantic texts as poised articulations of the idea of poetic madness, and discusses generally how these writers contributed to, or interwove with their own lives and works, new and rediscovered mythologies of madness, sometimes anticipating or resisting the public images created by journalism, criticism, or biography, previously described. Finally, the Romantic mad poet is considered in relation to criticism and the canonical role of Romanticism in English literature.

Nature and the Sublime

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
John Clare ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Mind

An account of Edmund Burke’s central ideas about the Sublime and the Beautiful shows how the emphasis Burke gave to terror helped to shape the Gothic fiction of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley. Focusing on examples from the poetry of William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Charlotte Smith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and John Clare, the remainder of this essay explores the ways in which Romantic poets both thought about and attempted to represent those elements of the sublime that were instigated by their encounters with the natural world. What emerges as defining about these interactions between the mind and world is how imaginative impulses towards a sense of the sublime often led to a renewed sense of the material world and the very contingencies of existence they sought to transcend. Even Wordsworth’s more reverential response to the natural world as sacrosanct recognises the ‘awe’ of the sublime can be as much consoling as it is disturbing. These disturbing aspects of natural process and the sublime are self-consciously explored in the poetry of Shelley, who subjects notions of transcendence and idealism to sceptical scrutiny. With varying degrees of emphases, the poetry of Byron, Smith, and Clare elide distinctions between nature and culture to acknowledge a sublime more explicitly shaped by temporal and material processes. Finally, a key episode in Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale is read as exemplifying the many difficulties and complexities of the Romantic imagination’s encounter with, and its attempts, to represent transcendence and the sublime.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet, based on the painting by Amelia Curran

Englische Romantik

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Breuer
Keyword(s):  
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Der repräsentative Überblick über die englische Romantik Zusammen mit den literarischen Werken werden in diesem Studienbuch die Ideen der Romantik erläutert, und das ist nicht nur für Anglisten interessant. Denn die englische Romantik war vor allem eine Zeit der Umbrüche: Neue Gedanken fanden Ausdruck in den Texten von Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Scott Austen sowie Mary und Percy Bysshe Shelley. Die Kapitel zu den wichtigsten Strömungen, Autoren und Werken Englands werden durch Exkurse zu Malerei und Gartenkunst, Technik und Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik vervollständigt. So ergibt sich ein umfassender Überblick über die englische Literatur und Kultur zwischen 1760 und 1830.

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