Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jones, Frederick L.

Titel

Shelley's on Life

Ist Teil von

• PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1947-09, Vol.62 (3), p.774-783

Ort / Verlag

New York, etc: Modern Language Association of America

Erscheinungsjahr

1947

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The fragmentary essay On Life is so significant a piece of writing, and its connection with Shelley's mental development and with some of his poems so obvious, that its comparative neglect by commentators and biographers is rather remarkable. This essay (1) is the prose basis for the Hymn to Intellectual Beauty , (2) is saturated with the influence of Wordsworth, whose Ode: Intimations of Immortality served as a model for Shelley's Hymn , and (3) not only contains Shelley's first definite announcement of his rejection of a materialistic philosophy and adoption of a spiritual “intellectual system,” but also marks an important point in his mental growth.