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Michael O'Neill (ed.), Shelley (London: Longman, 1993), pp. ix + 276. £12.99 paperback. 0 582 08667 1.

Michael O'Neill (ed.), Shelley (London: Longman, 1993), pp. ix + 276. £12.99 paperback. 0 582... Book Reviews Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran (eds.), Shelley: Poet and Legislatorof the World (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. xix + 310. £37.00 hardback; £13.00 paperback. 0 8018 5176 9. The twenty-three essays collected here were originally presented as papers at the 1992 international Shelley conference held in New York, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth. In their short Preface, editors Betty Bennett and Stuart Curran sum up the dual aims of the conference, aims which have been kept in sight in preparing the present volume, marking it off from other recent collections of essays on Shelley such as Kelvin Everest's outstanding Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog Conference (1983) and G. Kim Blank's TheNew Shelley (1991). One of the prime aims of Shelley: Poet and Legislatorofthe World is, as its title suggests, to address the internationalist element in Shelley's libertarian poetry and prose, both in terms of the poet's Volneyan conception of legislating (to? for?) the world, a theme specifically addressed in the essay by Marilyn Butler included here, and of Shelley's posthumous influence at an international level. An important element of this is Shelley's legacy to the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

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Romanticism , Volume 5 (1): 109 – Jan 1, 1999

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Book Reviews Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran (eds.), Shelley: Poet and Legislatorof the World (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. xix + 310. £37.00 hardback; £13.00 paperback. 0 8018 5176 9. The twenty-three essays collected here were originally presented as papers at the 1992 international Shelley conference held in New York, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth. In their short Preface, editors Betty Bennett and Stuart Curran sum up the dual aims of the conference, aims which have been kept in sight in preparing the present volume, marking it off from other recent collections of essays on Shelley such as Kelvin Everest's outstanding Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog Conference (1983) and G. Kim Blank's TheNew Shelley (1991). One of the prime aims of Shelley: Poet and Legislatorofthe World is, as its title suggests, to address the internationalist element in Shelley's libertarian poetry and prose, both in terms of the poet's Volneyan conception of legislating (to? for?) the world, a theme specifically addressed in the essay by Marilyn Butler included here, and of Shelley's posthumous influence at an international level. An important element of this is Shelley's legacy to the

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