Abstract
Shelley’s life and work are characterized by elements which repeat and echo through the ten years of his writing career. This feature is explored through various perspectives including Shelley’s use of rhyme and metre, his habit of dense allusiveness, and his tendency to revisit poetic forms. His interest in Platonism and metempsychosis is discussed, and his related preoccupation with the commonalities and affinities in human experience between individuals and across time. There is detailed consideration in these contexts of some relatively lesser-known late works including the poems to Jane Williams, and the fragments of the ‘Unfinished Drama’, which explore in highly original and challenging ways the notion of repetition and echoing in personal relationships, and through time.
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