From Dead Thoughts and Withered Leaves To Unextinguished Hearth and Awakened Earth

In this thought-provoking new book, George Ewane Ngide explores Percy Byshe Shelley’s poetry and visionary insight of a millennial future, an everlasting spring or a New Jerusalem where man will be “sceptreless-just man.” Shelley’s altruistic goal, Ngide asserts, is to reclaim the universe’s original harmony, to forge a new future where humanity stands unshackled from evil, both social and political. How? Through universal love, nonviolence, and even vegetarianism. Shelley’s poetic vision is con