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The preceding chapters have offered an account of Shelley’s development. Poems like Alastor and Laon and Cythna exist loosely within particular traditions of poetry, but their meaning, their central activity, is not integrated with their form. The intelligence that they reveal is a subtle one, but it is an intelligence that works underneath the poem rather than an intelligence that reveals itself through the poem.
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A phrase of Coleridge’s quoted by Shelley. See Shelley’s Letters, vol. II, p. 125. For the importance that Shelley attached to this precept, see Norman Thurston, ‘Shelley and the Duty of Hope’, Keats — Shelley Journal, XXVI (1977), pp. 22–8.
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Cronin, R. (1981). Shelley’s Development. In: Shelley’s Poetic Thoughts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16471-4_6
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