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There's no Romantic I adore as much as Shelley. I can't wait to read Richard Holmes' Shelley The Pursuit and get a little more acquainted with the Shelley mythology. This Norton edition of his writings has a good deal of introductory material before each piece, and is a worthy biographical study in its own right. I can't imagine a more complete edition of his works. Essential.
Love, Love Shelley. I reread daily!
O Wind! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!You had me at "O Wild West Wind!"
Shelley’s influence as a Romantic poet on subsequent generations is evident in the many phrases and images that survive in our collective consciousness even today: His Sky-Lark with its “rain of melody,” His West Wind sweeping away the “Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red” leaves, Ozymandias’s “sneer of cold command” and his echoing statement “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” His style is exuberant and at times bombastic, and he seems to impose on his readers his boundless and
Shelley always brings me back to the truth about myself. I am glad to have re-read his work. I want to write a book about him one day, but it's not now. His poems have reminded me of what I need to do. Shelley was a true visionary, like Rimbaud, like Goethe, like Milton. He lived his work. I want to do that.
Shelley's philosophy is debatable, but his genius is undeniable. This volume sheds light on his poetry, and thereby adds to the reader's enjoyment. Top picks include Mont Blanc, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Ozymandias, Adonais, The Cloud, and Ode to the West Wind.Mont Blanc:The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark - now glittering- now reflecting gloom - Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute
Reading Queen Mab at the moment. Had to do some background research into Edmund Spencer's "Faery Queen." I'm finding significant parallels with Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in both works. This is my intial impression.
I might not have read the entire volume, but the single chapters aren't included on goodreads so this will have to do...Read:- On the Devil, and Devils- A Defence of PoetryI absolutely loved reading "On the Devil, and Devils". I think this might've been my favorite critical piece I've ever read.Overall, I love Shelley's writing and the way in which he uses Milton in his critical pieces. He's probably one of the few critics whose work I would love to read in my spare time. I might need to buy one...
The Norton Critical Edition of Shelley is absolutely fantastic. I'm sad that it doesn't include his two gothic works. I love the formatting of this edition, I also have a copy of the Oxford World's Classics Shelley, Norton blows them out of the park.
Prometheus Unbound – ** What is this work? It lacks plot, suspense or development, characterization is flat and the poesy is dense and benumbing. Is it a play? A poem? An epic? A philosophical dialogue? The last act was tacked on after its original publication. Need I say more?Prometheus Unbound is written in a highly complex style – dense, convoluted, expansive and ornate. Sentences go on for 20 or more lines and contain innumerable clauses that dart this direction and that. Some sentences aren...
The book that began science fiction, it reeks of a tragedy too perfectly concocted to fully capture in a quarter-page book journal entry. I love every character in this book for what they bring to it, and it is one of the few books I can read effortlessly, even though it contains almost no dialogue. It is a joy to teach, because every year I learn something new about it, and not many books present that kind of “replay value.” I’m actually pretty glad that I didn’t have to study this one in colle...
I have to say that Shelley does have some of the best imagery, and that alone makes reading most of his poetry worth while for me. However, I was disappointed with all other aspacts of his work.First of all, his longer poems seem to either go in circles or have a rather chaotic line of thought.Secondly, whenever he puts in a theme, message, etc. they will often contradict one another.Lastly, at times one has to put a lot into understanding the simplest words because of how many different ways Sh...
I had overlooked Shelley because I used to hate the Romantics. He's excellent, and far more than appearances might dictate. The self-absorption of the Romantics is definitely true - they are some of the most narcissistic writers in English literature, but Shelley wrote amazing stuff.Which, I will add, was not entirely narcissistic. He was somewhat of a bastard, though - cheated repeatedly on Mary Shelley. Also a hot-headed political mind. It's probably why I prefer the Modernists -- or most othe...
