This paper aims at showing how Shelley’sDefence of Poetry proved influential in 19th-and 20th-century aesthetics, despite Modernist criticisms of his poetic achievements as immature and overly sentimental. In particular, the article examines textual instances where James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Wallace Stevens’s pronouncements of poetics seem not merely to respond to, but to have been shaped around and throughShelley’s Defense
The long shadow of P.B.Shelley’s Defence of Poetry on Anglo-American Modernist Manifestoes
Paolo Bugliani
2026-01-01
Abstract
This paper aims at showing how Shelley’sDefence of Poetry proved influential in 19th-and 20th-century aesthetics, despite Modernist criticisms of his poetic achievements as immature and overly sentimental. In particular, the article examines textual instances where James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Wallace Stevens’s pronouncements of poetics seem not merely to respond to, but to have been shaped around and throughShelley’s DefenseFile in questo prodotto:
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