Shelley's Italian ExperiencePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M10 23 - 355 pages Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet's four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, the poet imaginatively reshaped the rich cultural heritage of Italy and the vital qualities of its landscape and climate. |
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1st pub Adonais alludes allusions Amore Asia Beatrice Beatrice's beauty Byron canto canzone Canzoniere captives Cenci chariot claims Commedia conception contrast Convivio critics Dante Dante's Dante's vision Dantean death Defence of Poetry Demogorgon depiction described divine earth Earthly Paradise element Emilia Epipsychidion Eternity Euganean Hills expression fact figure freedom gives green isle heaven Hell human idea ideal imagery imagination Inferno influence Italy journey Julian and Maddalo Jupiter Lament Laura Lerici light living lyric Maniac Mary Mary Shelley mind mortal Naples nature Padua Paradise of exiles perspective Petrarch's Petrarchan pilgrim Pisa play poet poet's Preface Prometheus Unbound Purg Purgatory qualities reference Reiman Renaissance represents Roman Rome Rousseau scene setting Shelley Shelley's Italian experience Shelley's poem Shelley's poetry soul speaker spirit stanza suffering suggests Tasso terza rima thou thought translation Triumph tyranny Venetian Venice Virgil Vita Nuova Viviani Wasserman 1971 writes