The Poetics of Remembering and Forgetting: William Wordsworth and P. B. Shelley

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The Poetics of Remembering and Forgetting: William Wordsworth and P. B. Shelley

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The Poetics of Remembering and Forgetting:
A Study of the Romantic Selfhood in W. Wordsworth’s The Prelude and P. B. Shelley’s The Triumph of Life

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My argument in this essay is that, after the French Revolution, the English Romantic self, as represented in several poems of William Wordsworth, goes through a purifying process for its identification, but as represented in the poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, it also goes through a purgatorial process for its annihilation in the later Romantic period. The process for Wordsworth is primarily accomplished through acts of remembering, and through facing the memory of the past, that is, history, whether personal or public. In the case of Shelley, the process is accomplished through acts of forgetting history. There are thus significant differences between Wordsworth, the major figure of early Romantics, and later figures born after or just before the revolutionary year of 1789 such as Shelley, John Keats and Lord George Gordon Byron, in their presentations of selfhood and in their poetic reactions to revolutionary disillusionment and defeat.

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