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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 7 April 1994
- ISBN 9780198122845
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 223x145x20 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is an innovative study of the use by the poet Shelley, conventionally regarded as an atheist, of ideas and imagery from the Scriptures in expressing his world view. Drawing on a deep knowledge of the Bible, Biblical exegesis, and Christian typology, it argues that Shelley's interpretation of the Scriptures is in harmony both with the Gnostic heresies of the early church period and the rationalism of the Enlightenment.
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This is a detailed and innovative study of the use by the poet Shelley, conventionally regarded as atheist, of ideas and imagery from the Scriptures in expressing his world view.
Assessing Shelley's poetic theory and practice in relation to the Gnostic heresies of the early church period and the Enlightenment critiques of Scripture, the book shows the poet's method of biblical interpretation to be heterodox and revisionist. Shelley's early appropriation of Scriptural elements is seen to be based on the Bible's ethical content and its ideals of the kingdom of heaven, while in the period 1818-1820 he is a prophet in exile, an English expatriate preoccupied with the nature of the mind (or self). The final part of the study, which looks at Shelley's last two years, focuses on the notion of an increasingly spiritualized self who realizes that his kingdom is `not of this world'. A detailed appendix sets out a large number of definite or possible Biblical allusions in Shelley's poetry.
Shelley and Scripture draws on a deep knowledge of the Bible, and of the various currents in the history of Biblical exegesis and Christian typology, to present a timely re-evaluation of the influence on Shelley of the language and traditions of Christianity.
a dedicated academic analysis of the Romantic poet's close encounters of the biblical kind. Shelley and Scripture is both richly comprehensive and critically ground-breaking. Bryan Shelley's book without doubt enhance significantly our sense of the richness of allusion and cultural influence within Shelley's work. ...a stance that carefully balances the contextual with the literary.
