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Shelley : the pursuit / Richard Holmes

By:

Holmes, Richard, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New York Review Books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review Books , [2003].Edition: [New ed.]Description: xvii, 830 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781590170373

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 SHE

LOC classification:

PR5431 .H65 2003

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002729

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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.

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