Shelley's Broken World

Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022 Shelley’s Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley’s poetic art and thought.   Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelley’s expressive repertoire first noticed by his Victorian readers and editors: his innovatory use of pauses, which registered as irregularities in ears untuned to his innovations. But his pauses are more than a quirk; various intermittences are at the centre of Shelley’s artistry a