ENG202Y1 Lecture 2: Shelley
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Sees literature as a form of alienation (from normalworld/society) but also understand true/enduring forms. 1811: writes necessity of atheism and is expelled from oxford. Involved w/ harriet westbrook + mary wollstonecraft godwin. 1816: writes hymn to intellectual beauty, mont blanc; mary writes frankenstein. 1821: death of keats writes adonais and a defence of poetry. His feelings of alienation mirror the romantic tradition where man, going outside of society / retreats into nature, looks to both past and present. Jubal (son of cain) creator of music, but wanders around in wilderness. Looks at mutability not as a way of knowing god (anglo-saxon poetry) but rather, a. Void where man can use own powers to make sense of life. Wordsworth: success; poet can capture moments / spots of time within the grand scope of nature; and bc he captures, so everyone else can comprehend. Shelley: focus on dynamic themes action, endlessly moving things mutability.
