The Mutiny Within: The Heresies of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rieger, James

Published by George Braziller, New York, 1967

Paperback. 8" X 5". 283pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, and toning to covers, corners, and edges. Heavy creasing to spine. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's stamp to first five pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: To his contemporaries, Shelley's name stood for religious, political, and moral anathema. Critics in the first half of our own century contnued to deplore his philosophical unorthodoxy and artistic essentricity. Mr. Rieger isolates three Shelleyan "heresies," all of them artistic in origin and all defensible. Shelley's major symbols of creative Imagination owe far less to Platonism than to occult tradition and the heresies of the early Church. And though he employed the Romantic analogy from religious sacrament to literary metaphor, in the end he denied the validity of both. Finally, he sought less to enlighten his audience than to astound and limit it--less to make his vision plain than to obscure it from the stares of the uninitiated.(Publisher). Seller Inventory # 9492

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Title: The Mutiny Within: The Heresies of Percy ...
Publisher: George Braziller, New York
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good