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Shelley: The Pursuit  
Author: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 1590170377
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmes, recognized as one of the most distinguished literary biographers writing today, first made his name. Dispensing with the established picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes -- winner of the Somerset Maugham Award -- projects a startling image of, as he writes, "a darker and more earthly, crueler and more capable figure." Here we have the real Shelley at last - radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator.




Shelley: The Pursuit

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Shelley: The Pursuit is 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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