Shelley's Italian Experience
Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet's four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, the poet imaginatively reshaped the rich cultural heritage of Italy and the vital qualities of its landscape and climate.
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Shelley's Italian Experience
Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet's four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, the poet imaginatively reshaped the rich cultural heritage of Italy and the vital qualities of its landscape and climate.
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Shelley's Italian Experience

Shelley's Italian Experience

by Alan M. Weinberg
Shelley's Italian Experience

Shelley's Italian Experience

by Alan M. Weinberg

Hardcover(1991)

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Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet's four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, the poet imaginatively reshaped the rich cultural heritage of Italy and the vital qualities of its landscape and climate.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333497623
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 10/23/1991
Series: Studies in Romanticism
Edition description: 1991
Pages: 355
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chronology - Preface - Abbreviations, Foreign Texts and Translations - Introduction - The Exile in Search of Refuge: 'Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills' - Dual Perspectives and a Venetian Setting: 'Julian and Maddalo' - Shelley and Renaissance Italy: 'The Cenci' - Italian Origins, Sources and Precedents: 'Prometheus Unbound' - Emilia Viviani and Shelley's 'Vita Nuova': 'Epipsychidion' - Rome, Dante and the Soul's Ascent: 'Adonais' - Lerici and the Italian Visionary Epic: 'The Triumph of Life' - Conclusion - Select Bibliography - Index
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