Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘A poem is the very image of life’
- Standard Abbreviations and Note on Texts
- 1 ‘Painted fancy's unsuspected scope’: The Esdaile Notebook, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, and Queen Mab
- 2 ‘These transient meetings’: Alastor and Laon and Cythna
- 3 ‘All that is majestic’: The Scrope Davies Notebook
- 4 ‘That such a man should be such a poet!’: ‘To Wordsworth’, ‘Verses Written on Receiving a Celandine in a Letter from England’, and Julian and Maddalo
- 5 ‘In a style very different’: Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci
- 6 ‘The sacred talisman of language’: The Witch of Atlas and A Defence of Poetry
- 7 ‘One is always in love with something or other’: Epipsychidion and the Jane Poems
- 8 ‘The right road to Paradise’: Adonais and The Triumph of Life
- Bibliography
- Index
Standard Abbreviations and Note on Texts
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘A poem is the very image of life’
- Standard Abbreviations and Note on Texts
- 1 ‘Painted fancy's unsuspected scope’: The Esdaile Notebook, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, and Queen Mab
- 2 ‘These transient meetings’: Alastor and Laon and Cythna
- 3 ‘All that is majestic’: The Scrope Davies Notebook
- 4 ‘That such a man should be such a poet!’: ‘To Wordsworth’, ‘Verses Written on Receiving a Celandine in a Letter from England’, and Julian and Maddalo
- 5 ‘In a style very different’: Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci
- 6 ‘The sacred talisman of language’: The Witch of Atlas and A Defence of Poetry
- 7 ‘One is always in love with something or other’: Epipsychidion and the Jane Poems
- 8 ‘The right road to Paradise’: Adonais and The Triumph of Life
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Shelley’s Living ArtistryLetters, Poems, Plays, pp. 11 - 12Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2017