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Scholars do not agree on how best to describe Shelley's philosophical stance. His work has been variously taken to be that of a skeptic or a skeptical and subjective idealist. The study presents a new interpretation of Shelley's thinking - an interpretation that places 'intellectual system' squarely within the Epicurean tradition of Lucretius, casting both poets as theistic empiricists.

To establish Shelley as working in the Epicurean tradition, this study explores Lucretius' De Rerum Natura as edited, translated and interpreted by two Epicurean scholars roughly...

Scholars do not agree on how best to describe Shelleys philosophical stance. His work has been variously taken to be that of a skeptic or a skeptical and subjective idealist. The study presents a new interpretation of Shelleys thinking an interpretation that places intellectual system squarely within the Epicurean tradition of Lucretius, casting both poets as theistic empiricists.

To establish Shelley as working in the Epicurean tradition, this study explores Lucretius De Rerum Natura as edited, translated and interpreted by two Epicurean scholars roughly contemporary with Shelley: Gilbert...