Shelley on Love: Selected writings

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Shelley on Love: Selected writings
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Richard Holmes
Original author Percy Bysshe Shelley
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreLiterary essays
ISBN/Barcode 9780006550129
ClassificationsDewey:828.709
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint Flamingo
Publication Date 9 April 1996
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Richard Holmes brings together for the first time Shelley's almost unknown prose writings as well as the better-known love poetry for which he is famous. The collection, which treats of love in all its forms and manifestations, presents on intellectual and emotional portrait of a great poet's beliefs and personality.

Author Biography

Richard Holmes is Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia, and editor of the Harper Perennial series Classic Biographies launched in 2004. His is a Fellow of the British Academy, has honorary doctorates from UEA and the Tavistock Institute, and was awarded an OBE in 1992. His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award. He has published two studies of European biography, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer in 1985, and Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer in 2000.