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Shelley and Scripture
Bryan Shelley
其他書名
The Interpreting Angel
出版Clarendon Press, 1994
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / PoetryLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / ReligionReligion / Biblical Studies / GeneralReligion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
ISBN01981228459780198122845
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ynwfAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Assessing Shelley's poetic theory and practice in relation to the Gnostic heresies of the early church period and the Enlightenment critiques of Scripture, the book shows the poet's method of biblical interpretation to be heterodox and revisionist. Shelley's early appropriation of Scriptural elements is seen to be based on the Bible's ethical content and its ideals of the kingdom of heaven, while in the period 1818-1820 he is a prophet in exile, an English expatriate preoccupied with the nature of the mind (or self) and its transformation. The final part of the study, which looks at Shelley's last two years, focuses on the notion of an increasingly spiritualized self who realizes that his kingdom is 'not of this world'. A detailed appendix sets out a large number of definite or possible Biblical allusions in Shelley's poetry.