Focusing on the poem Laon and Cythna [1817], the article analyses the way Percy Bysshe Shelley develops the notion of imagination as a place for the poet to stay. The temple of the imagination is a mystical place where the poet receives an initiation into the secrets of the world through the revelation of the gnostic principles ruling it.
CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée