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Shelley on Love: Selected writings
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Shelley on Love: Selected writings
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Richard Holmes
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Original author Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:224 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Literary essays |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780006550129
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Classifications | Dewey:828.709 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint |
Flamingo
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Publication Date |
9 April 1996 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
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