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Desire and Eternity in Shelley’s Poetry
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This chapter traces Shelley’s evolving fascination with eternity. Enamoured by eternity, Shelley wrote version of eternity into his poetry from the beginning until the end of his career. But Shelley was a profoundly political and socially aware poet, devoted to justice in this world as much as he was drawn to eternity. Shelley was deeply read in philosophy, and though less up to date with advances in German philosophy than Coleridge who stood ‘at the cutting edge of new thinking’, Shelley’s poetry seems alert to many of the same questions found in contemporary German philosophy. Eternity seems the inexpressible state to which all Shelleyan expression yearns. Eternity is an elsewhere unknowable to mortals, but one that remains vital to mankind in its promise of ‘some bright Eternity’ (Epipsychidion, 115).
Title: Desire and Eternity in Shelley’s Poetry
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This chapter traces Shelley’s evolving fascination with eternity.
Enamoured by eternity, Shelley wrote version of eternity into his poetry from the beginning until the end of his career.
But Shelley was a profoundly political and socially aware poet, devoted to justice in this world as much as he was drawn to eternity.
Shelley was deeply read in philosophy, and though less up to date with advances in German philosophy than Coleridge who stood ‘at the cutting edge of new thinking’, Shelley’s poetry seems alert to many of the same questions found in contemporary German philosophy.
Eternity seems the inexpressible state to which all Shelleyan expression yearns.
Eternity is an elsewhere unknowable to mortals, but one that remains vital to mankind in its promise of ‘some bright Eternity’ (Epipsychidion, 115).
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