Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He has been Head of Department for two three-year periods and a Director of the University's Institute of Advanced Study. His research has concentrated on questions of literary achievement and on literary dialogue and influence. He has published widely on Romantic poetry, especially Percy Bysshe Shelley, and on an array of Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first century poets. He co-founded and co-edited Poetry Durham from 1982 to 1994. He has received many awards for his criticism and poetry, including Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America for 2019.

Imagining anyone more widely read than Percy Shelley is difficult, but O'Neill (Durham Univ., UK) has the ability to discover Shelley's slightest allusions and to trace his inheritance in later texts -- an ability that speaks to O'Neill's mastery of a remarkable range of texts. ... O'Neill's nuanced and perceptive tracing of Shelley's allusiveness reveals how Shelley re-created texts and genres, but O'Neill also produces an original, sophisticated understanding of Shelley's complex relations with his predecessors and contemporaries, and of how his poetry initiates a rewarding dialogue with future readers and writers. This study will be of interest to scholars of Shelley and 19th-century British poetry, but also to those interested in rethinking the complexity of intertextuality. ... Highly recommended.

• Introduction 1: Emulating Plato: Shelley as Translator and Prose Poet 2: 'The Right Scale of that Balance': Shelley, Spenser, Milton 3: 'A Double Face of False and True': Poetry and Religion in Shelley 4: Shelley, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Revolutionary Imagination 5: 'A Kind of an Excuse': Shelley and Wordsworth Revisited 6: The Gleam of Those Words': Shelley and Coleridge 7: Shelley and Southey Reconsidered 8: 'The Fixed and the Fluid': Identity in Shelley and Byron 9: Narrative and Play: Shelley's The Witch of Atlas and Byron's Beppo 10: 'The End and Aim of Poesy': Shelley and Keats in Dialogue 11: Turning to Dante: Shelley's Adonais Reconsidered 12: 'The Inmost Spirit of Light': Shelley and Turner 13: Shelley, Beddoes, Death, and Reputation 14: 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Later Poetry 15: 'Beautiful but Ideal': Intertextual Relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley and Letitia Elizabeth Landon 16: The Wheels of Being: Shelley and Tennyson 17: 'Stars Caught in My Branches': Shelley and Swinburne Coda: A. C. Bradley's Views of Shelley Bibliography

Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He has been Head of Department for two three-year periods and a Director of the University's Institute of Advanced Study. His research has concentrated on questions of literary achievement and on literary dialogue and influence. He has published widely on Romantic poetry, especially Percy Bysshe Shelley, and on an array of Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first century poets. He co-founded and co-edited Poetry Durham from 1982 to 1994. He has received many awards for his criticism and poetry, including Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America for 2019.

Imagining anyone more widely read than Percy Shelley is difficult, but O'Neill (Durham Univ., UK) has the ability to discover Shelley's slightest allusions and to trace his inheritance in later texts -- an ability that speaks to O'Neill's mastery of a remarkable range of texts. ... O'Neill's nuanced and perceptive tracing of Shelley's allusiveness reveals how Shelley re-created texts and genres, but O'Neill also produces an original, sophisticated understanding of Shelley's complex relations with his predecessors and contemporaries, and of how his poetry initiates a rewarding dialogue with future readers and writers. This study will be of interest to scholars of Shelley and 19th-century British poetry, but also to those interested in rethinking the complexity of intertextuality. ... Highly recommended.

• Introduction 1: Emulating Plato: Shelley as Translator and Prose Poet 2: 'The Right Scale of that Balance': Shelley, Spenser, Milton 3: 'A Double Face of False and True': Poetry and Religion in Shelley 4: Shelley, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Revolutionary Imagination 5: 'A Kind of an Excuse': Shelley and Wordsworth Revisited 6: The Gleam of Those Words': Shelley and Coleridge 7: Shelley and Southey Reconsidered 8: 'The Fixed and the Fluid': Identity in Shelley and Byron 9: Narrative and Play: Shelley's The Witch of Atlas and Byron's Beppo 10: 'The End and Aim of Poesy': Shelley and Keats in Dialogue 11: Turning to Dante: Shelley's Adonais Reconsidered 12: 'The Inmost Spirit of Light': Shelley and Turner 13: Shelley, Beddoes, Death, and Reputation 14: 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Later Poetry 15: 'Beautiful but Ideal': Intertextual Relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley and Letitia Elizabeth Landon 16: The Wheels of Being: Shelley and Tennyson 17: 'Stars Caught in My Branches': Shelley and Swinburne Coda: A. C. Bradley's Views of Shelley Bibliography

Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He has been Head of Department for two three-year periods and a Director of the University's Institute of Advanced Study. His research has concentrated on questions of literary achievement and on literary dialogue and influence. He has published widely on Romantic poetry, especially Percy Bysshe Shelley, and on an array of Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first century poets. He co-founded and co-edited Poetry Durham from 1982 to 1994. He has received many awards for his criticism and poetry, including Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America for 2019.

Imagining anyone more widely read than Percy Shelley is difficult, but O'Neill (Durham Univ., UK) has the ability to discover Shelley's slightest allusions and to trace his inheritance in later texts -- an ability that speaks to O'Neill's mastery of a remarkable range of texts. ... O'Neill's nuanced and perceptive tracing of Shelley's allusiveness reveals how Shelley re-created texts and genres, but O'Neill also produces an original, sophisticated understanding of Shelley's complex relations with his predecessors and contemporaries, and of how his poetry initiates a rewarding dialogue with future readers and writers. This study will be of interest to scholars of Shelley and 19th-century British poetry, but also to those interested in rethinking the complexity of intertextuality. ... Highly recommended.

• Introduction 1: Emulating Plato: Shelley as Translator and Prose Poet 2: 'The Right Scale of that Balance': Shelley, Spenser, Milton 3: 'A Double Face of False and True': Poetry and Religion in Shelley 4: Shelley, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Revolutionary Imagination 5: 'A Kind of an Excuse': Shelley and Wordsworth Revisited 6: The Gleam of Those Words': Shelley and Coleridge 7: Shelley and Southey Reconsidered 8: 'The Fixed and the Fluid': Identity in Shelley and Byron 9: Narrative and Play: Shelley's The Witch of Atlas and Byron's Beppo 10: 'The End and Aim of Poesy': Shelley and Keats in Dialogue 11: Turning to Dante: Shelley's Adonais Reconsidered 12: 'The Inmost Spirit of Light': Shelley and Turner 13: Shelley, Beddoes, Death, and Reputation 14: 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Later Poetry 15: 'Beautiful but Ideal': Intertextual Relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley and Letitia Elizabeth Landon 16: The Wheels of Being: Shelley and Tennyson 17: 'Stars Caught in My Branches': Shelley and Swinburne Coda: A. C. Bradley's Views of Shelley Bibliography