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Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

Book information

Publisher
NYRB Classics
Year
2003
ISBN
1590170377, 2003006573, 9781590175705, 9781590170373
ASIN
B005UFBWNY
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (12011204 bytes)
Pages
880\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2022-02-18 18:35:38

Description

Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmes—the finest literary biographer of our day—made his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of "a darker and more earthly, crueler and more capable figure." Expelled from college, disowned by his aristocratic father, driven from England, Shelley led a life marked from its beginning to its early end by a violent rejection of society; he embraced rebellion and disgrace without thought of the cost to himself or to others. Here we have the real Shelley—radical agitator, atheist, apostle of free love, but above all a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator, whose life and work have proved an essential inspiration to poets as varied as W.B. Yeats and Allen Ginsberg.

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