Holmes, Richard, 1945- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 736-740) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781590170373 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003006573 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Shelley, Percy Bysshe , 1792-1822 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poets, English---19th century----Biography<br/>Radicals---Great Britain----Biography<br/>Atheists---Great Britain----Biography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR5431  / .H65 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 SHE