This study inquires into the relation between the writer and the reader in the poetry of Shelley who, in spite of his endeavor to acquire the public popularity, was criticized and neglected by his contemporary readers as well as critics. Reading Shelley's poetry, we can recognize without anv difficulty that he continuously tries to have more direct and close association with the reader than any other poet in his time. In Shelley's poetry, this is shown as the responsibility of the writer for the reader. For this responsibility Shelley work out a variety of mechanisms; writing prefaces to every long poems hard for readers to understand; endowing poets including himself with the status of prophet; reversed writing in which physical objects come from the mentality in contrast to the poetry in common. On the part of readers, these mechanisms help them feel that their consciousness is continuously stirred up. And readers are gradually led into the field where the relationship between them and the writer is built up in sympathy. Seemingly, Shelley just copies the writing of the old, typical writers in which the writers stay predominant over the readers. But in seeing Shelley's poetry in the reader-oriented view, the most important thing is that all these manipulations by Shelley is to make the reader respond to his poetry more smoothly and closely--a kind of warmup. That is to say, Shelley never says to his readers what they should obtain in his works; but he just want to say how they should read his poetry. All the rest is on each reader. In conclusion, Shelley's writing, which appreciates the relationship between the reader and the writer, and induce the reader to have his own experience, laid a cornerstone of the reader-responsive approach as early as 200 years ago.
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I. 서론 II. 독자배려 III. 해석 집단의 형성 IV. 독자와 작가의 교호 V. 결론 인용문헌 Abstract