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Politics of Author:
"Jacobin Sympathies"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"The Fragments"
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Literary Period:
"Industrial Revolution"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Reform and Counterrevolution"
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"Victorian"
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Metaphor Category:
"Optics"
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Date: w. 1821, 1840
"The former [i.e., conception] is as a mirror which reflects, the latter [i.e., expression] as a cloud which enfeebles, the light of which both are mediums of communication"
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
Poetry "reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)