Callaghan, M. (2020) Shelley's excursion. SEL Studies in English Literature, 60 (4). pp. 717-737. ISSN 0039-3657
Abstract
This article considers Percy Bysshe Shelley’s response to William Wordsworth’s The Excursion, viewing the younger poet as responding to the challenge of Wordsworth’s epic throughout his career. Focusing specifically on Laon and Cythna, Prometheus Unbound, and The Triumph of Life, this article shows Shelley’s one-sided debate with Wordsworth as pitting his poetics against Wordsworth’s poetics, Shelleyan philosophy against Wordsworthian thought. The Excursion was not a poem for Shelley to reject. It was the epic that would tease Shelley into complex thought. Shelley’s troubled though profound response to Wordsworth’s poem sees Shelley make The Excursion his own.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Rice University. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in SEL Studies in English Literature. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2019 11:14 |
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2021 12:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/sel.2020.0029 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:146968 |