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Shelley : the pursuit / Richard Holmes.
LIBRA Special PR5431 .H65 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Richard, 1945-
- 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.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 830 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- [New edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2003]
- 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:
- A fire-raiser
- Oxford: 81o-II
- Wales and limbo: 8Io
- Harriet Westbrook
- Irish Revolutionaries: I8I2
- A radical commune
- The Tan-yr-allt Affair
- One dark night
- A poem and a wife: Queen Mab 1813
- Three for the road: Europe i814
- Bad dreams: Kentish Town 1814
- Up the River: Bishopsgate 1815
- The Byron summer: Switzerland 1816
- The suicides: London 1816
- The garden days: Marlow 1817
- The platonist: Bagni di Lucca 1818
- An evening with Count Maddalo: Venice
- The tombs of Naples: 1818
- A Roman spring: 1819
- The palace of the dark
- The hothouse: Livorno 1819
- The west wind: Florence 1819
- From the gallery: Florence
- The reformer: Pisa
- The moons of Pisa: 1820
- The Tuscan set: 821
- The colony: 182I
- The Byron Brigade: 1822
- The Gulf of Spezia
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 736-740) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1590170377
- 9781590170373
- OCLC:
- 51900604
- Online:
- Publisher description
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