理查德·福尔摩斯史诗般的传记翻版,讲述了这位最神秘、最有趣的浪漫主义诗人。这只是近年来最伟大的传记成就之一。
雪莱是所有伟大的浪漫主义诗人中最被忽视的一位,1792年出生于苏塞克斯,1822年死于托斯卡纳,短暂的一生中充满了爱情、爱情和远足。福尔摩斯的书对雪莱作为一个男人和作家进行了严肃而批判性的重新评价;他所有的散文和诗歌都被仔细地重新审视,他精神上和地理上的孤立感得到了精彩的描述,他那令人毛骨悚然、充满想象力的生活的详细写照慢慢地组合起来。
福尔摩斯的小说《鲁莽的时代》中的一些生动的人物,以及他在小说《鲁莽的时代》中的一些大胆的理想主义。除此之外,还有雪莱曲折的浪漫恋情的私人故事,这些复杂的故事影响了他日常生活中独特的基调和他诗歌中最遥远的概念。
这是一部关于一个引人入胜的主题的令人惊叹、引人入胜的传记,也是一部绝对具有开创性的作品的及时重发。
Shelley: The Pursuit
A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes’ epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years.
Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany in 1822, a brief life packed with love affairs, alarums and excursions. Holmes’s book offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation brilliantly described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled.
Shelley’s intense friendships with some of the most remarkable figures of his age fill Holmes’s pages with a vivid parorama of revolutionary idealism and recklessness. To this is added the private story of Shelley’s tortuous romantic liaisons, complications which affected both the peculiar tenor of his daily life and the remotest conceptions of his poetry.
This is a stunning, entrancing biography of a fascinating subject, and a timely reissue of an absolutely seminal work.
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