Shelley: The PursuitShelley: 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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Queen Mab 1813 | |
Kentish Town 1814 | |
London 1816 15 TheGarden Days Marlow 1817 | |
Section II 16 The Platonist Bagni di Lucca 1818 | |
Florence 1819 | |
Florence 1820 | |
Pisa1820 25 The Moonsof Pisa1820 26 TheTuscan Set 1821 | |
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The Gulf of Spezia | |
Coda | |
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| Title | Shelley: The Pursuit New York Review Books Classics |
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| Contributor | Richard Holmes |
| Publisher | New York Review of Books, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1590175700, 9781590175705 |
| Length | 880 pages |
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