Bøker av Michael (Professor of English O'Neill

This volume is a wide-ranging, sensitive study of Percy Bysshe Shelley's response to previous writers and cultural influences, and of his influence on later nineteenth-century writers.

An exploration of the 'self-conscious poem', one that displays awareness of itself as poetry, in the work of the Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. A coda looks at some post-romantic poets, Yeats, Stevens, Auden, and Clampitt, in the light of the central themes.