Shelley (Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters) - Softcover

Symonds, John Addington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108034691 ISBN 13: 9781108034692

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

This biography of Shelley (1792-1822), the Romantic poet also known for his defence of atheism, was written by John Addington Symonds (1840-93), author, poet and critic, whose aim was to portray the complete and controversial man.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108034691
• ISBN 13: 9781108034692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202