Richard Holmes: Shelley: The Pursuit
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- Kustantaja: New York Review of Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781590170373
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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. '