An echo of Clarke's 'Address' in Shelley's 'Defence'?

Authors
Citation
Rm. Turley, An echo of Clarke's 'Address' in Shelley's 'Defence'?, NEOPHILOLOG, 84(2), 2000, pp. 323-327
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics
Journal title
NEOPHILOLOGUS
ISSN journal
00282677 → ACNP
Volume
84
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
323 - 327
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-2677(200004)84:2<323:AEOC'I>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
This essay finds an echo of a pamphlet written by Charles Cowden Clarke, An Address to that Quarterly Reviewer who Touched upon Mr. Leigh Hunt's "Stor y of Rimini" (1816), in Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1821). The discovery clarifies Shelley's involvement in a philologically informed Romantic project that sought to re-locate 'genuine,' emphatic diction in mo dern poetry and thus resist inherited neoclassical literary values.