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Chargement... Adonaispar Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Finally managed to read through it. I don't know why I had such a hard time getting to it. Lots of hard-to-follow sentences and plenty of gorgeous verse music--so, standard Shelleyan fare. ( ) If ever you feel the need of proof that we are a barbarian race, look no further than my purchase of this little book. Produced in 1902, this lovely edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonais, bearing a romantic billet-doux of ten years later from a gentleman to his paramour, was purchased for £2 including p&p. This is a crime. Now, to the contents of this tome; it is a wonderful poem of PBS's mature period. It is available in some selections of Shelley's works but, there is something special in owning a vintage, albeit not a contemporary, edition. I am afraid that I rejoice in the lack of wisdom that sees a mobile phone with some useless gizmo, totally un-necessary for a happy life, being valued at many times that of such a wonderful work. As a boy, I had problems learning to swim. Shelley drowned, because he could not swim, just thirty years old, when at the Ligurian Sea in a thunderstorm his boat sunk. Hearing this from my English teacher, I doubled and tripled my strength, until I was able to keep my head above water for a minimum of twenty minutes.
Yet, however John Keats chose to live his life among the female of the species, clearly Percy Bysshe Shelley found Keats disingenuous or deluded. Adonais takes all this healthy, organic, wholesome energy and inverts it. As female splendor after splendor (what a splendor is for Shelley is a kind of earth-spirit or half-ghost) jumps on and molests Keats' corpse, we also see a kind of reversal in sensibility suggesting another inversion: Shelley does not like women, and feminine energy, as much as Keats does. This may be refuted by other sectors of Shelley's oeuvre, but Shelley was a poet of many moods, and a misogynistic mood may be one of them. By showing us these "damp deaths," Shelley adds an implicit critique of Keats' treatment of the Psyche myth in his odal cycle, and also (maybe, and daringly) opens a window not only on Fanny Brawne, but on what other kind of women were attracted by Keats during his lifetime. This is not just a question of the class differential between Shelley and Keats, which is (admittedly) huge in and of itself- it is a question of writing a palimpsest over a whole vision of human reality, an idealistic one, and replacing it with a perverse, materialistic, yet (also) more painstakingly honest one. If, traditionally, Keats is seen to be the materialist and Shelley the idealist, it is only because twentieth century literary criticism evinced its own perversity in molesting corpses with its splendors, and taking the easy way out, back to an inverted paradise. Est contenu dansListes notables
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HTML: Adonais represents the height of artistic achievement for nineteenth-century Romantic poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley's book-length elegy in the pastoral style mourns the loss of fellow poet John Keats in 495 remarkably accomplished lines. Shelley himself regarded Adonais as the best of his work, and the poem is a must-read for fans of the Romantic movement, or for anyone who has struggled with loss. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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