Ross Wilson, Shelley and the Apprehension of Life (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 2013)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the essay 'On Life' (1819), stated 'We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life'. Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge) uses this statement as a starting point to explore Shelley's fundamental beliefs about life and the significance of poetry. Drawing on the whole range of Shelley's work and placing his poetics in its broad philosophical context from Plato to the present, this book offers a timely intervention in the debate about what Romantic poets understood by 'life'. It demonstrates that, for Shelley, 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.
Published August 2013 (UK) and October (rest of world). www.cambridge.org/9781107041226
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