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 ...
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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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Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x2; First printing. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light handling on the boards and spine. Underlining and notations on the first 105 pages. Previous owner name on the FFEP. The dust jacket shows edgewear, small chips and small tears, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xiii, 829pp. A suitable reading copy.
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Very Good. New York: Dutton, 1975. Stated first American edition, 1975, but likely second printing. Bright red cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrated in black and white, a hefty 829 pages, no dustjacket. Very good condition with firm binding, clean pages, gift notation on front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Collectible-Very Good in Collectible-Very Good jacket. First American edition. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are age toned. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket shows some wear, with a couple small closed tears at the top edge. Overseas/Priority shipping at cost. 829pp.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Thick Octavo. 829pp. Orange boards, gilt lettering on the spine. 24pgs of black and white illustrations. A light dot on the fore-edge, otherwise like new. Unclipped orange jacket has light creasing on the upper edge, otherwise fine. In mylar sleeve. "Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Richard Holmes offers 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 is 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."