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.
| ISBN: | 9780007204588 |
| Publication date: | 3rd October 2005 |
| Author: | Richard Holmes |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 830 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry and poets Poetry by individual poets |
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.
Shelley features in the following genres: Biography: writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry by individual poets
Shelley is available in Paperback
Shelley was written by Richard Holmes and published by Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Shelley has 830 pages
£17.99