This essay presents a reading of the relationship between the poetics and political thinking of the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The analysis centers on his main theoretical works, but also endeavors to establish some general relations to different moments of his poetic production. The reading develops the contradiction that is posed by the conjunction of a historical materialism of Godwinian origin and a political idealism more proper to the humanistic tradition. In this context, this paper proposes that the communicating vessel between Shelley's political and aesthetic thinking is the idealistic assumption of continuity between conscience, will and social reality, which enables him to identify his poetic project with his politics. The essay concludes by understanding this contradiction within the logic of Utopian socialism, as it has been characterized by the historian Perry Anderson.
Keywords:
English literature, Romanticism, aesthetics, politics, utopian socialism
San Martín Varela, P. (2012). Materialism and idealism in the poetic and political thought of Percy B. Shelley. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (81). Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/18726
Estimados/as, queremos informar la suspensión de acceso al sistema de gestión de la revista desde el martes 26 de abril hasta el miércoles 4 de mayo por actualización de la plataforma editorial.
Cualquier duda al respecto, pueden comunicarse al correo electrónico del contacto principal.
