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050	1	0	_aPR5431 _b.H65 2003
082	0	0	_a92 SHE
100	1		_aHolmes, Richard, 1945-
245	1	0	_aShelley _b: the pursuit _c/ Richard Holmes
250			_a[New ed.]
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, [2003].
300			_axvii, 830 p., [24] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 23 cm.
440		0	_aNew York Review Books classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 736-740) and index.
520			_aShelley: 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.
600	1	0	_aShelley, Percy Bysshe _d, 1792-1822
650			_aPoets, English _y-19th century _v--Biography
650			_aRadicals _z-Great Britain _v--Biography
650			_aAtheists _z-Great Britain _v--Biography
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