{"product_id":"shelley-the-pursuit-isbn-9781590170373","title":"Shelley: The Pursuit","description":"\u003ci\u003eShelley: The Pursuit\u003c\/i\u003e is the book with which Richard Holmes—the finest literary biographer of our day—made his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of \"a darker and more earthly, crueler and more capable figure.\" Expelled from college, disowned by his aristocratic father, driven from England, Shelley led a life marked from its beginning to its early end by a violent rejection of society; he embraced rebellion and disgrace without thought of the cost to himself or to others. Here we have the real Shelley—radical agitator, atheist, apostle of free love, but above all a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator, whose life and work have proved an essential inspiration to poets as varied as W.B. Yeats and Allen Ginsberg.\u003cb\u003eRichard Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eShelley: The Pursuit\u003c\/i\u003e (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; \u003ci\u003eColeridge: Early Visions\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; \u003ci\u003eDr. Johnson \u0026amp; Mr. Savage\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and \u003ci\u003eColeridge: Darker Reflections\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include \u003ci\u003eFootsteps\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003eSidetracks\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303774081253,"sku":"NP9781590170373","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170373.jpg?v=1767736513","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/shelley-the-pursuit-isbn-9781590170373","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}