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'The Ineffectual Angel’: Arnold's Misrepresentation of Shelley

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dc.contributor.author Weinberg, Alan M.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-11-28T11:20:24Z
dc.date.available 2016-11-28T11:20:24Z
dc.date.issued 2009
dc.identifier.citation Alan Weinberg (2009) ‘The Ineffectual Angel’: Arnold's Misrepresentation of Shelley, The Keats-Shelley Review, 23:1, 82-96 en
dc.identifier.issn 0952-4142
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21814
dc.description.abstract Writing on Shelley's posthumous reputation, Newman Ivey White noted the 'general acclaim' which marked the poet's critical reception in the mid- and late Victorian period. Inevitably there were eminent detractors who, to the extent that they reacted against an idealization of Shelley, may well have usefully offset elements of an unwholesome semi-religious cult, particularly that surrounding Jane, Lady Shelley (who, together with her husband, Sir Percy Florence - the poet's son - guarded with tenacity the poet's reputation, and most surviving manuscripts). But, as White reminds us, admiration for Shelley was grounded in genuine scholarship and literary interest. In the period in question, 'students of Shelley produced more than a dozen biographies, scores of editions, and hundreds of critical essays, many of them from the most distinguished critics of the age'. None could deny the serious interest in Shelley, unless they chose to ignore it. White went on to observe that Arnold, Bagehot, and Stephen were among those who, owing to their stature, gave credence to a motley of critical voices in the opposition camp. They did so 'in some of the most important and fully considered critical essays of the age'. Arnold's assessment of Shelley mainly appeared in two essays, one on Byron and the second on Shelley, published successively in his Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888). en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis en
dc.subject Percy Bysshe Shelley en
dc.subject Matthew Arnold en
dc.subject reception studies en
dc.subject misrepresentation en
dc.subject English Romanticism en
dc.title 'The Ineffectual Angel’: Arnold's Misrepresentation of Shelley en
dc.type Article en
dc.description.department English Studies en


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