Shelley: The Pursuit by Holmes, Richard

Shelley: The Pursuit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590170373)

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Shelley: The Pursuit by Holmes, Richard

Shelley: The Pursuit

$45.00
Shelley: The Pursuit by Holmes, Richard

Shelley: The Pursuit

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Richard Holmes
ISBN-10: 1590170377
ISBN-13: 9781590170373
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2003
Pages: 880
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 2.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 130
Commonweal 12/07/2007 pg. 28
By Richard Holmes
By Richard Holmes
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Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

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