Citation

Callaghan M. Keats-Shelley Review 2010; 24: 38-52.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010)

DOI

10.1179/095241410X522799

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Abstract

This paper explores Adonais's radical refiguring of the elegy as it creates a hero-figure who is double in construction, at once the elegizing Shelley and the elegized Keats. Against Harold Bloom's reading of the poem as denying myth, and Ross Woodman's psychoanalytic reading of Adonais as a kind of psychic suicide, this paper sees the poem as a dazzling poetic performance which self-consciously creates and disfigures itself to make the conventions of the elegy adequate to Shelley's vision. © 2010 Maney Publishing.

Language: en

Keywords

ADONAIS; ELEGY; HERO; KEATS; SHELLEY; STRUGGLE