{"id":12994,"date":"2010-07-08T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=12994"},"modified":"2010-07-08T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:00:06","slug":"percy-bysche-shelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/08\/percy-bysche-shelley\/","title":{"rendered":"Percy Bysshe Shelley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/Shelley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12995\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/Shelley.jpg\" alt=\"Shelley\" width=\"300\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/Shelley.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/06\/Shelley-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this date <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley\" target=\"_blank\">Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/a> died (1792-1822).<\/p>\n<p>Frye in conversation with David Cayley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Literature doesn&#8217;t argue.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the principle of Shelley&#8217;s <em>Defence of Poetry<\/em> &#8212; that literature doesn&#8217;t argue.\u00a0 As Yeats says, &#8220;You can refute Hegel but not the Song of Sixpence.&#8221;\u00a0 The whole argumentative side is something that critics, without examining the matter, think must be true of criticism but not of literature.\u00a0 But to me criticism is really the expression of the awareness of language.\u00a0 And what I try to do in my writing is express awareness of language, particularly of literary language and what it&#8217;s trying to do.\u00a0 (<em>CW <\/em>24, 953-4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shelley&#8217;s &#8220;A Defense of Poetry&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaslovepeacock.net\/defence.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date Percy Bysshe Shelley died (1792-1822). Frye in conversation with David Cayley: Literature doesn&#8217;t argue.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the principle of Shelley&#8217;s Defence of Poetry &#8212; that literature doesn&#8217;t argue.\u00a0 As Yeats says, &#8220;You can refute Hegel but not the Song of Sixpence.&#8221;\u00a0 The whole argumentative side is something that critics, without examining the matter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries","category-poetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/08\/percy-bysche-shelley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On this date Percy Bysshe Shelley died (1792-1822). 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