Shelley : the pursuit
Holmes, Richard, 1945-
Shelley : the pursuit / Richard Holmes - [New ed.] - New York : New York Review Books , [2003]. - xvii, 830 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 736-740) and index.
Shelley: The Pursuitis 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.
9781590170373
2003006573
Shelley, Percy Bysshe , 1792-1822
Poets, English---19th century----Biography
Radicals---Great Britain----Biography
Atheists---Great Britain----Biography
PR5431 / .H65 2003
92 SHE
Shelley : the pursuit / Richard Holmes - [New ed.] - New York : New York Review Books , [2003]. - xvii, 830 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 736-740) and index.
Shelley: The Pursuitis 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.
9781590170373
2003006573
Shelley, Percy Bysshe , 1792-1822
Poets, English---19th century----Biography
Radicals---Great Britain----Biography
Atheists---Great Britain----Biography
PR5431 / .H65 2003
92 SHE
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