Title
Power and the Poet
Subtitle
Religious Mythmaking in Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In this examination of the English Romantic poet P. B. Shelley, Spencer Hall takes a new direction into the critical review of this work. Whereas traditional thought expresses a metaphysical belief or revelation in regards to Shelley's Power myth, Hall provides a new perspective of deep-seated skepticism. By focusing on the function of the poem rather than a symbolic meaning, Hall seeks to show that the myth is a subjective attribute of human experience rather than supernatural and should be taken as a metaphor used in a variety of ways.
Rights Management
Rhode Island College
Citation
Hall, S. (1983). Power and the poet: Religious mythmaking in Shelley's" Hymn to Intellectual Beauty". Keats-Shelley Journal, 32, 123-149.