Shelley and the Romantic Imagination: A Psychological Study

Frosch (English, City U. of New York-Queens College) looks at the imagining of an ideal women in Percy Shelley's (1792-1822) Alastor, Prometeus Unbound, and The Triumph of Life, in light of the modern dream interpretation offered by psychoanalysis. His purpose is to understand the poems better, to underscore the power of their idealizations, and to set the poetic myths in a human complexity of ambivalence and conflict. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)