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Shelley - The Pursuit (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R528
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Shelley - The Pursuit (Paperback, New Ed)

Richard Holmes

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A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany in 1822, a brief life packed with love affairs, alarums and excursions. Holmes's book offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation brilliantly described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. Shelley's intense friendships with some of the most remarkable figures of his age fill Holmes's pages with a vivid parorama of revolutionary idealism and recklessness. To this is added the private story of Shelley's tortuous romantic liaisons, complications which affected both the peculiar tenor of his daily life and the remotest conceptions of his poetry. This is a stunning, entrancing biography of a fascinating subject, and a timely reissue of an absolutely seminal work.

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Imprint: HarperPerennial
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2005
Authors: Richard Holmes
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 55mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 830
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-720458-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 0-00-720458-2
Barcode: 9780007204588

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