Shelley the Pursuit

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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.

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