Shelley - Brossura

Symonds, John Addington

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1108034691 ISBN 13: 9781108034692

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

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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Descrizione del libro:

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.

Contenuti:

1. Birth and childhood; 2. Eton and Oxford; 3. Life in London and first marriage; 4. Second residence in London, and separation from Harriet; 5. Life at Marlow, and journey to Italy; 6. Residence at Pisa; 7. Last days; 8. Epilogue.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108034691
• ISBN 13: 9781108034692
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 202