Acknowledgements

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List of Abbreviations

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Chapter One—Eliot and Shelley: Influence, Renunciation and Accommodation

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The Harvard Lecturer: Eliot in 1932

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Confronting the Romantics: The Norton Lectures

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Possible Reasons for Eliot’s Disavowal of Romanticism

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Eliot’s Uneasy Relationship with the Romantics

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Later Rapprochement with Shelley

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Past Readings of Eliot’s Romantic Dilemma

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‘Christian Romanticism’: A Different Reading of Eliot’s Response to Shelley

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Chapter Two—The Question of the Self

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‘Life’s Unquiet Dream’: Shelley’s Condition of Selfhood

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‘Alastor’ and ‘Prince Athanese’

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