The long shadow of P.B.Shelley’s Defence of Poetry on Anglo-American Modernist Manifestoes
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 Defense
Fields of Study & Subjects
Modernist Literature and Criticism
Poetry Analysis and Criticism
Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN