Author: George Barnett Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9781330404560

Excerpt from Shelley: A Critical Biography The poetic revival witnessed at the dawn of the nineteenth century came from opposite sides. Its music and its passion were typified in Shelley, and its devotion to nature in Wordsworth. These poets were the antithesis of the classical school represented by Dryden and Pope, men who were moulded by, and did not mould, their age. I take Shelley and Wordsworth as exponents of the new order, because Byron, though uniting, in an inferior degree, the qualities of both, did not, in the general outline of his genius, distinctively set forth the special and distinguishing characteristics of either. Shelley rebelled against organised society, and poured his wrath and his ecstasies into his verse; Wordsworth, touched into a noble frame of mind by the initiation of the French Revolution, saw as in a vision the grand triumph of right over might in the immediate distance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.