| Shelley: The Pursuit Contributor(s): Holmes, Richard (Author), Holmes, Richard (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590170377 ISBN-13: 9781590170373 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: This winner of the Somerset Maugham Award dispenses with the established picture of Percy Bysshe Shelley as a blandly ethereal character by projecting a startling image of the poet as a radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant poetic innovator. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003006573 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (2.55 lbs) 880 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |