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...in his poetry. Eschewing the intertextual viewpoint of the likes of Kristeva and Derrida, neither of whom is mentioned in the text or notes, West develops a theory of poetic influence that draws for its intellectual precedents upon Harold Bloom, Peter De Bolla, and John Hollander, while focusing on the recent work of Michael O'Neill to make the case that studying Coleridge's influence on Shelley is a potentially rewarding undertaking. According to West, the significance of her study is to show how "the sort of poetic dialogue with Coleridge's works in which Shelley engages in his own poems is a manifestation of the themes of community and representation which underpin the action of the Prometheus Ucnbound volume" (15).

Some of the occasions of influence that West discusses are fairly well known--for example "Shelley's alleged poetic portrait of Coleridge in the lyric 'O! there are spirits of the air" (15), as well as the connection between "Hymn before Sun-rise" and "Mont Blanc." Others have not been discussed to date in...

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