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Shelley by Richard Holmes

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Shelley by Richard Holmes

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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ISBN 13 9780140580372
ISBN 10 0140580379
Title Shelley
Author Richard Holmes
Series Literary Biographies S
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Puffin Books
Year published 1987-08-27
Number of pages 848
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.