Abstract
This essay examines Percy Shelley’s uses of the rhetorical and prosodic period, including the pauses that define it, in his revolutionary epics Queen Mab and Laon and Cythna . Relating the microcosmic verbal structures deployed by the poems’ speakers to Shelley’s macrocosmic understanding of the period as a historical or astronomical interval involving incremental change, the essay presents Shelley’s periods as emblems and agents of what in A Defence of Poetry he calls “revolutions in opinion”: not stable transmissions of ideology but the perpetual re-making of readers’ cognitive universes.
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