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Article: Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority.
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- Criticism
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- January 1, 1996
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by Steven Jones. Normal: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 215. $30.00.
Shelley's early critics thought of him as a poet both in and in some way out of "the world." Modern critics do so as well, but they understand this dualism differently, and in their vocabulary Shelley's poetry meditates on the possible autonomy of its own language, while claiming also language's grounding in the social and material realities it both mirrors and enriches.
Though Shelley scholars today are a diverse lot, since the early 80's two general approaches have come to dominate. In one view, for the Romantic Iyric to claim to speak of a "world created by ...