Shelley's Mythmaking

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FIRST EDITION of Harold Blooms first book Orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine 8vo x 279pp index in dust jacket. Authors first book. Publishers "This book a pioneer work deriving much from the thought of Northrop Frye and Martin Buber finds in Shelleys poetry the governing dialectic in which he expressed mans alternate confrontation and experience of the world. Taking the making and unmaking of this myth of relationship as it occurs in such poems as Mont Blanc Ode to the West Wind Prometheus Unbound The Witch of Atlas Epipsychidion and The Triumph of Life Mr. Bloom has produced both a new defense of Shelleys poetry and a sustained attack on the hostile "new critics" and those scholars who have seen these poems as thought dressed in images. He has also examined Shelleys work in relation to the poems of Blake Wordsworth and Coleridge and the general tradition of English visionary poetry on the other--from Spencer and Milton through the Romantics to Yeats." Yale Studies in English 141.