Shelley: The Pursuit

Shelley: The Pursuit

Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmesâ€”the finest literary biographer of our dayâ€”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 Shelleyâ€”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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harper Perennial
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 24 b/w plates (24pp)
ReleaseDate 2005-10-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780007204588

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