02077nam a22003618a 4500 CR9781139649445 UkCbUP 20171023141834.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121210s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139649445 (ebook) 9781107041226 (hardback) 9781107628625 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR5438 .W55 2013 821/.7 23 Wilson, Ross, author. Shelley and the Apprehension of Life / [electronic resource] Ross Wilson. Shelley & the Apprehension of Life Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; no. 101 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Life in literature Print version: 9781107041226 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; no. 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649445 Cambridge Books Online 230919 230919