Shelley and the Musico-Poetics of Romanticism

Addressing a gap in Shelley studies, Quillin explores the poet's lifelong interest in music. Quillin connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political and philosophical concerns, showing that music offers a new critical lens through which to view such familiar Shelleyan concerns as the status of the poetic, figural language and the philosophical problem posed by idealism versus skepticism.