Shelley Paperback / softback
by John Addington Symonds
Part of the English Men of Letters 39 Volume Set series
Paperback / softback
Description
John Addington Symonds (1840–93), well known as an author, poet and critic, wrote this biography of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) in an attempt to portray the complete man.
Shelley, Symonds writes, was more than a controversial atheist.
He was full of earnest conviction, enthusiasm, and intellectual vigour, but also extravagance, crudity and presumption.
Published in 1878 in the first series of English Men of Letters, this book thus provides an account of a literary life famously cut short, describing a writer whose intellectual and poetic legacy was perhaps not fully appreciated in the Victorian period, when the response to his poems was frequently coloured by antipathy to his revolutionary ideas and his unconventional private life, as well as to his loudly proclaimed atheism.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:202 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781108034692
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:202 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:03/11/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108034692
