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Romantic poetry and the transmission of affect

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In “A Defence of Poetry,” Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that “poetry […] awakens and enlarges the mind itself by rendering it the receptacle of a thousand unapprehended combinations of thought.” For the Romantic poet, poetry presents transformative powers that enable it to so change the reader’s mind that it becomes open to receive new ideas. This, in turn, raises the question of affect: in Shelley’s essay, poetry seems to hold the ability not only to affect readers’ perceptions of ideas, but also to stimulate their affects and their perceptions of beauty and emotion. These emotions and perceptions are then sent forth into the world in a movement of transmission that starts with the poet’s hand and ends with the reader’s experience. This conception of poetry as a vessel for affective transmission is not, however, unique to Shelley. In this paper, I would therefore like to explore the relationships between affect and transmission in the works of a few Romantic poets.
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hal-04518401 , version 1 (23-03-2024)

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Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt. Romantic poetry and the transmission of affect. Congrès de la SAES, Jun 2023, Rennes, France. ⟨hal-04518401⟩

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