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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.

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Cover of SHELLEY: THE PURSUIT by Richard Holmes

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