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'We Are All Greeks:' Sympathy And Proximity In Shelley‘S Hellas, Kyle J. Klausing
'We Are All Greeks:' Sympathy And Proximity In Shelley‘S Hellas, Kyle J. Klausing
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
The outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821 against the Ottoman Empire animated the radical European intelligentsia in a way unseen since the French Revolution 30 years before. The British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the chorus of philhellenes (meaning one who loves Greece) by extolling the Greek cause in his epic poem, Hellas. Scholarship has traditionally seen Shelley’s representation of the revolution either as an overly classicized literary indulgence or as a purely polemical defense of a political event. By identifying ways in which Shelley uses the classical past to engage the reader with the subject, I will …