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Good self, bad self: The Struggle in Shelley
Author(s) -
Ann Wroe
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
romanticism and victorianism on the net
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-1441
DOI - 10.7202/019259ar
Subject(s) - soul , imprisonment , empathy , self , philosophy , psychoanalysis , constant (computer programming) , aesthetics , epistemology , psychology , social psychology , criminology , computer science , programming language
Although he sometimes decried the notion of a duality of body and soul, few poets were more conscious than Percy Bysshe Shelley of the soul’s imprisonment in the illusory material world. In considering Shelley’s notion of the self, this essay will track his constant search to discover and unlock his own inner powers of empathy, imagination and liberation

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