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Shelley: The Pursuit

Shelley: The Pursuit

Holmes, Richard
Holmes, Richard

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Literary FiguresPolitical Biographies

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 1590170377
ISBN13: 9781590170373
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: May 31 2003
Pages: 880
Weight: 2.55
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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