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Shelley
Richard Holmes
其他書名
The Pursuit
出版
Harper Perennial
, 2005
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
History / General
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Poetry / Subjects & Themes / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
ISBN
0007204582
9780007204588
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IKAaAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.