Bøger af Carl Grabo

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

1935. This book continues the interpretation begun in "A Newton Among Poets" of the intellectual background of Shelley's poetry. The author's study of Shelley's Witch of Atlas leads the reader to the beauty and truth of thought which lies behind the beautiful imagery and meter of the poem, proving that in this most fanciful of all his flights, Shelley is a scientist and philosopher, as well as a poet.

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This biography describes Shelley's life-in-thought. It dispels the popular conception of him as a vague dreamer and reveals a radical thinker passionately concerned with practical questions of politics, social abuses, and the underlying questions of good and evil, free will and determinism. The Shelley so revealed is a poet of greater range, insight, and power than has hitherto been acknowledged.

Grabo, while not attempting to explain Prometheus Unbound entirely in terms of science, shows the extent to which Shelley used the science of his day, particularly the phenomenon of light and electricity, in his greatest poem. Far from belittling Shelley's creative imagination, this aspect seems to reveal greater reach and profundity. Originally published in 1930.