TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Ross
TI  - Shelley and the Apprehension of Life
T2  - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
SN  - 9781139649445 (ebook)
AV  - PR5438 .W55 2013
U1  - 821/.7 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Life in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the essay 'On Life' (1819), stated 'We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life'. Ross Wilson uses this statement as a starting point to explore Shelley's fundamental beliefs about life and the significance of poetry. Drawing on a wide range of Shelley's own writing and on philosophical thinking from Plato to the present, this book offers a timely intervention in the debate about what Romantic poets understood by 'life'. For Shelley, it demonstrates poetry is emphatically 'living melody', which stands in resolute contrast to a world in which life does not live. Wilson argues that Shelley's concern with the opposition between 'living' and 'the apprehension of life' is fundamental to his work and lies at the heart of Romantic-era thought
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649445
ER  -