Shelley: The Pursuit
- ISBN-10
- 1590175700
- ISBN-13
- 9781590175705
- Series
- Shelley
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 880
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-20
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Author
- Richard Holmes
Description
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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