Wilson, Ross creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Ross Wilson. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Life in literature PR5438 .W55 2013 821/.7 9781139649445 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649445 UkCbUP 121210 20171023141834.0 CR9781139649445