L’imaginaire comme temple
The imaginary as a temple

Shelley and gnostic principles

Summary/Abstract: Focusing on the poem Laon and Cythna [1817], the article analyses the way Percy Bysshe Shelley develops the notion of imagination as a place for the poet to stay. The temple of the imagination is a mystical place where the poet receives an initiation into the secrets of the world through the revelation of the gnostic principles ruling it.

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