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Shelley's detractors since Hazlitt have noticed a division in the 'self' of his poems. A central reasoning core fears the passions surrounding it and distrusts the language expressing it. A few of his admirers offer an alternative view of the poems as symbolical pointers to a non-linguistic reality transcending passion; most miss the point, justifying their admiration by referring to the poems' systems of thought. This reading of Shelley's major poems and critical prose finds the adverse case more convincing.
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SIMON HAINES
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Book Title: Shelley's Poetry
Book Subtitle: The Divided Self
Authors: Simon Haines
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376854
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-59707-1Published: 24 February 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37685-4Published: 24 February 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 276
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature