SHELLEY: THE PURSUIT
Written by Richard Holmes
Published by Quartet Books Limited
in 1976
ISBN: 070433111X
SHELLEY: THE PURSUIT
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831264
1st thus.
1976.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
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. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. xiii and 829 pages including index. ISBN: 070433111X. Light reading crease to spine. Tip of lower corner and prelims creased. Foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- 1 A Fire-Raiser
- 2 Oxford: 1810-11
- 3 Wales and Limbo: 1811
- 4 Harriet Westbrook
- 5 Irish Revolutionaries: 1812
- 6 A Radical Commune
- 7 The Tan-yr-allt Affair
- 8 One Dark Night
- 9 A Poem and a Wife: Queen Mab 1813
- 10 Three for the Road: Europe 1814
- 11 Bad Dreams: Kentish Town 1814
- 12 Up the River: Bishopsgate 1815
- 13 The Byron Summer: Switzerland 1816
- 14 The Suicides: London 1816
- 15 The Garden Days: Marlow 1817
- 16 The Platonist: Bagni di Lucca 1818
- 17 An Evening with Count Maddalo: Venice
- 18 The Tombs of Naples: 1818
- Appendix to Chapter 18
- 19 A Roman Spring: 1819
- 20 The Palace of the Dark
- 21 The Hothouse: Livorno 1819
- 22 The West Wind: Florence 1819
- 23 From the Gallery: Florence 1820
- 24 The Reformer: Pisa 1820
- 25 The Moons of Pisa: 1820
- 26 The Tuscan Set: 1821
- 27 The Colony: 1821
- 28 The Bryon Brigade: 1822
- 29 The Gulf of Spezia
- 30 Coda
- Author's Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- References
- Index