A Preface to Shelley

by P. Hodgart

Overview

This volume discusses the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the social and political context of the world and time in which he lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582353695
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/1985
Series:	Preface Books
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Patricia Hodgart was a scholar of Girton College, Cambridge, and subsequently taught for several colleges in the university. For a considerable time she has been Chief Examiner in the Romantic period with the Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate. Together with Theodore Redpath she compiled Romantic Perspectives (Harrap, 1964).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Patricia Hodgart; Part one The Writer and his Setting; Chapter 102 Family trees, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 103 Chronological table, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 1 Shelley’s earlyThe making of a gentleman, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 3 The historical background, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 4 Shelley’s philosophical beliefs, Patricia Hodgart; Part two Critical Survey; Chapter 5 The writer and his craft, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 6 A critical examination of some poetry, Patricia Hodgart; Part three Reference Section; Chapter 104 The Shelley circle: family and friends, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 105 The traveller: a Shelley gazetteer, Patricia Hodgart; further-reading Further reading, Patricia Hodgart;