Callaghan, M. (2022) Writing “Supreme Reality”: Coleridge’s religious musings and Shelley’s Queen Mab. Studies in Romanticism, 61 (3). pp. 405-427. ISSN 0039-3762
Abstract
This article argues that Shelley’s experimentation with prophecy in Queen Mab closely connects him to the Coleridge of Religious Musings. Prophecy, in Coleridge’s hands, is a means of social criticism as well as a divine calling. Shelley relished such doubleness, transforming prophecy into an imaginative mode that marks his entire poetic career. Religious Musings, with its multi-faceted preoccupations, spoke to Shelley’s early ambitions as a philosophical poet in Queen Mab. Religious Musings was a model for Shelley that he would return to with a keen sense of his own mastery of Coleridge’s twist on the prophetic mode.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Trustees of Boston University. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Studies in Romanticism. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Influence; Shelley; Coleridge; Prophecy; Philosophy |
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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: | 13 Jul 2021 11:33 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2022 14:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/srm.2022.0029 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176022 |