| Title | : | Shelley: The Pursuit |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Richard Holmes |
| Release | : | 2003-05-31 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism |
| Size | : | 13793574 |
| 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. |
