Percy Shelley's Poetry of Anticipation

Ideas about utopia and the future are at the heart of many of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s greatest works. But Shelley described the act of anticipating a future ‘period of regeneration and happiness’ as a ‘hazardous exercise’. This talk by Dr Jonathan Quayle, Lecturer in Romantic Literature, Newcastle University will explore how Shelley takes on this challenge in his poetry and how he understands the act of imagining the future to be a crucial responsibility of poets-the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’.
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An intriguing perspective on Shelley's poetry