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Shelley : the pursuit / Richard Holmes.
LIBRA - Rare PR5431 .H65 1994b Mathews copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Richard, 1945- author.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
- Poets, English--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Atheists.
- Great Britain.
- Radicals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Radicals.
- Atheists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 830 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 1994.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 A Fire-Raiser 1
- 2 Oxford: 1810-11 37
- 3 Wales and Limbo: 1810 61
- 4 Harriet Westbrook 84
- 5 Irish Revolutionaries: 1812 117
- 6 A Radical Commune 133
- 7 The Tan-yr-allt Affair 163
- 8 One Dark Night 178
- 9 A Poem and a Wife: Queen Mab 1813 199
- 10 Three for the Road: Europe 1814 235
- 11 Bad Dreams: Kentish Town 1814 250
- 12 Up the River: Bishopsgate 1815 286
- 13 The Byron Summer: Switzerland 1816 319
- 14 The Suicides: London 1816 347
- 15 The Garden Days: Marlow 1817 367
- 16 The Platonist: Bagni di Lucca 1818 414
- 17 An Evening with Count Maddalo: Venice 439
- 18 The Tombs of Naples: 1818 458
- 19 A Roman Spring: 1819 485
- 20 The Palace of the Dark 509
- 21 The Hothouse: Livorno 1819 519
- 22 The West Wind: Florence 1819 529
- 23 From the Gallery: Florence 1820 560
- 24 The Reformer: Pisa 1820 571
- 25 The Moons of Pisa: 1820 602
- 26 The Tuscan Set: 1821 617
- 27 The Colony: 1821 654
- 28 The Byron Brigade: 1822 685
- 29 The Gulf of Spezia 712.
- Notes:
- Publishers advertisements: final leaf.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 736-740) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- ISBN:
- 1590170377
- 9781590170373
- OCLC:
- 53172011
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