Shelley's Prose: Or, The Trumpet of a Prophecy |
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... probably found this idea of a world - soul in ancient literature , particularly in Plato , but at the time he first used this term Shelley had only a school - boy acquaintance with Greek philosophy . True , this notion of a world - soul ...
... probably found this idea of a world - soul in ancient literature , particularly in Plato , but at the time he first used this term Shelley had only a school - boy acquaintance with Greek philosophy . True , this notion of a world - soul ...
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... probably Joseph Ritson , to whose An Essay on the Abstinence from Animal Food ( London , 1802 ) I have pointed out in the article referred to above , Shelley probably was considerably indebted . The interest in the Vindication as in ...
... probably Joseph Ritson , to whose An Essay on the Abstinence from Animal Food ( London , 1802 ) I have pointed out in the article referred to above , Shelley probably was considerably indebted . The interest in the Vindication as in ...
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... probably written in 1813-1814 . In the essay Shelley called for the abolition of capital punishment because of the evil effect of public executions upon both criminal and spectators . The spec- tacle brutalizes the spectators and the ...
... probably written in 1813-1814 . In the essay Shelley called for the abolition of capital punishment because of the evil effect of public executions upon both criminal and spectators . The spec- tacle brutalizes the spectators and the ...
Contents
ESSAYS | 28 |
PROPOSALS FOR AN ASSOCIATION | 169 |
A VINDICATION | 181 |
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