P.B. Shelley’s Philosophy of Love

Shelley denounced religion in its conventional sense as the source of the missries of mankind, but the did believe in a religion of his own, and this was love. Love e was, for him, a faith and a philosophy. In almost all his major poems love emerges as the ideal which is worth being cherished and which provides a solution to the problems which are faced by the individual and the society. What does Shelley mean by love? What is it that he seeks to convey when he talks of the “Glorious beams” with which love fills the heart of the individual and also the society: In the present book Sarita Singh makes an attempt to answer these and other questions with a view to discover what shelley actually meant when he talked of love as the maker of a new individual and a newk society. A significant contribution to Shelleyan studies, the book will be warmly welcomed by all students of English Poetry.