Shelley in Season
Richard Holmes
- The Unacknowledged Legislator: Shelley and Politics by P.M.S. Dawson
Oxford, 312 pp, £16.50, June 1980, ISBN 0 19 812095 8 - Shelley and his World by Claire Tomalin
Thames and Hudson, 128 pp, £5.95, July 1980, ISBN 0 500 13068 X
If all poets have their psychic season, Shelley belongs to the very late stormy autumn and the very early frosty spring. His is a time of transitions: of high winds, wild hopes and freezing regrets. Both poetically and politically, it is an equinoctial world: restless, dangerous, brimming, beautiful and often cruel. This is the season of the Alastor-poet’s long pursuit, of Prometheus chained to his rock (pierced by ‘moon-freezing crystals’), of Julian’s evening ride with Count Maddalo, of the Wild West Wind, the breath of Autumn’s being.
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Vol. 2 No. 20 · 16 October 1980 » Richard Holmes » Shelley in Season (print version)
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