{"title":"‘That Path Where Flowers Never Grew’: Pageantry as Fertility Going Awry in ‘The Triumph of Life’","authors":"Pauline Hortolland","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2022.2151202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2022.2151202","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this essay, I use the notion of fertility to examine what is left of Erasmus Darwin’s influence on Percy Shelley in his last, unfinished poem, ‘The Triumph of Life’. My aim is to shed light on Shelley’s use of pageantry in this poem in a new way, bearing in mind Darwin’s frequent use of botanical pageants in The Loves of the Plants and in The Temple of Nature, that is, poems which notoriously influenced Shelley in Queen Mab and Prometheus Unbound. Shelley’s pageant in ‘The Triumph of Life’ is the enactment of the ‘mutiny within’ (l. 213), which is opposed to the dominion of love in Prometheus Unbound and to Darwin’s idea that good outbalances evil (The Temple of Nature, IV, 135–45). While on the surface Shelley ironically reverses the positive connotations of fertility which characterize the Darwinian botanical pageant, he nonetheless preserves this fertility metaphorically, resorting to the pageant as a metaphor generative of poetic wonders which can awaken the readers from Life’s deadening ‘mist of familiarity’. I conclude by arguing that what proves most fertile in this poem is ultimately Shelley’s reworking and revitalizing of a hackneyed metaphor – that of the pageant itself.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"36 1","pages":"93 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42970860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Romantic Rebel: Shelley’s Etonian Schooldays","authors":"Angus Graham-Campbell","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2022.2151198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2022.2151198","url":null,"abstract":"Shelley was a boy at Eton between 1804 and 1810, arriving as a new boy, as Mary Shelley would have it ‘like a spirit from another sphere’ at the age of nearly twelve, and leaving just before his eighteenth birthday. At that time, the School consisted of about thirty Scholars or ‘Collegers’ who lived together in squalor in the old College building, and about 350 Oppidans who lived in boarding houses scattered about the town. Shelley was an Oppidan. He was going to spend a fifth of his life at Eton, and he was never going to be resident, for even half that amount of time, in one place ever again. His schooldays coincided with a period of great national and international turmoil and about the time the Duke of Wellington was alleged to have said that the battle of Waterloo had been won on the Playing Fields of Eton. Shelley was in Upper School when the Head Master broke the news of Nelson’s death to his Etonian nephew in 1805. It would be difficult to imagine a time or a school more geared to an ethos of machismo and violence and more un-woke in every respect. Shelley’s schooldays are often characterized by a sense of deep persecution and cruelty, which led a future Headmaster to conclude, ‘what Shelley received at Eton made him a perfect devil’. He has been seen as spending his time in eccentric experimentation and bizarre behaviour, which earned him the schoolboy soubriquets of ‘Mad Shelley’ and ‘Shelley the Atheist’. But I would contend that his experience at Eton was more mainstream than is usually imagined, and certainly happier, and that he was far from being particularly singled out, as his contemporaries underwent similar persecutions, escapades and adventures, as he did, in this dangerous and lawless environment. As Newman Ivey White suggests in his fine biography, ‘Shelley was never quite as abnormal at Eton as he later became in the memories of those who had known him there’. Indeed, one could argue that his main eccentricity was in the extent of his intellectual exploration and academic achievement, in a school of desperate ineptitude and intellectual ossification, where true education was as dead as the languages that formed its entire curriculum. It is quite certain that as a young boy at Eton, Shelley was systematically and ferociously bullied, both physically and psychologically. His clothes were ripped apart,","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"36 1","pages":"59 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46628823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Soundscapes of Childhood in Coleridge’s Lyric Poetry","authors":"Jai Rane","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2022.2075596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2022.2075596","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores portrayals of childhood in Coleridge’s poetry in the light of the poet’s own objections to Wordsworth’s description of a child as a philosopher in Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. Coleridge suggests that by forcing adult ideas of rationality upon the child, Wordsworth undermines the uniqueness of childhood as a separate form of consciousness with its own ways of thinking and communicating. I argue that Coleridge avoids this deficiency in his own poetry by using the musical dimension of the lyric to celebrate childhood in its own language. The pre-literate child’s off-page tears, gurgles, and whimpers can be heard in the adult speaker’s infant-directed speech. The speaker’s acoustic choices allow the reader to ‘read’ the moods of the child in the melodic part of the lyric (melos) and anticipate a time when the child will be able to join its opsis.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"36 1","pages":"34 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48122293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Shadows: The Influence of John Keats on the Poetry of John Tyndall","authors":"N. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/09524142.2022.2075594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09524142.2022.2075594","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines the possible influence of the poetry of John Keats on the poetry of John Tyndall. Tyndall’s work as a Victorian physicist is introduced, along with his lesser-known canon of poetry. Several areas are evaluated, including resonances to Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, the use of Keatsian terminology, the moon as a cipher for romantic attraction, the meaning of landscape for the creative and scientific imagination, and the pantheistic sublime. The essay concludes that clear influences of Keats can be found shimmering through John Tyndall’s poetry, with his philosophy of scientific investigation reflecting, eventually, a form of negative capability.","PeriodicalId":41387,"journal":{"name":"KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW","volume":"36 1","pages":"27 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45301837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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