{"title":"Shelley’s Excursion","authors":"M. Callaghan","doi":"10.1353/SEL.2020.0029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers Percy Bysshe Shelley’s response to William Wordsworth’s The Excursion, viewing the younger poet as responding to the challenge of Wordsworth’s epic throughout his career. Focusing specifically on Laon and Cythna, Prometheus Unbound, and The Triumph of Life, this article shows Shelley’s one-sided debate with Wordsworth as pitting his poetics against Wordsworth’s poetics, Shelleyan philosophy against Wordsworthian thought. The Excursion was not a poem for Shelley to reject. It was the epic that would tease Shelley into complex thought. Shelley’s troubled though profound response to Wordsworth’s poem sees Shelley make The Excursion his own.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SEL.2020.0029","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article considers Percy Bysshe Shelley’s response to William Wordsworth’s The Excursion, viewing the younger poet as responding to the challenge of Wordsworth’s epic throughout his career. Focusing specifically on Laon and Cythna, Prometheus Unbound, and The Triumph of Life, this article shows Shelley’s one-sided debate with Wordsworth as pitting his poetics against Wordsworth’s poetics, Shelleyan philosophy against Wordsworthian thought. The Excursion was not a poem for Shelley to reject. It was the epic that would tease Shelley into complex thought. Shelley’s troubled though profound response to Wordsworth’s poem sees Shelley make The Excursion his own.
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SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.