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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590170377
ISBN-13
9781590170373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2437809
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shelley: the Pursuit
Number of Pages
880 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Poetry, Literary, Political
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Political Science