Percy Bysshe Shelley : a biography /

Bieri, James.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : a biography / James Bieri. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. - xviii, 832 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 781-801) and index.

Part I: Youth's unextinuished fire, 1792-1816 -- The politics of paternity -- "An infancy outlasting manhood": mother -- The young Prometheus -- Exiled to education -- "Untaught foresters": Eton madness -- Gothic "wild boy" and Harriet Grove -- A radical poetic identity -- Icarus at Oxford -- Doubling after the fall: Harriet Westbrook and Elizabeth Hitchener -- Elopement and betrayal -- Seeking new fathers: Keswick -- The Irish expedition -- Wandering reformer -- Phantasmagoria at Tanyrallt -- Marital disengagement -- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin -- Births and deaths -- The mirror of self-analysis -- The creative Swiss summer -- Part II: Exile of unfulfilled renown, 1816-1822 -- The dark autumn of suicides -- Albion House: the last English year -- "Paradise of exiles, Italy" -- Euganean Isles of misery: Venice -- Paradise of devils: Naples -- Roman tragedy and creativity -- Leghorn's "sad reality" -- "a voice over the sea" -- Florentine voices: unacknowledged legislator and Sophia Stacey -- Poetic mothers: Pisa and Leghorn -- Baths of San Giuliano -- "Emily ... my heart's sister" -- "A love in desolation masked" -- The last Pisan winter -- Drawn to the sea -- A"watery eclipse" -- Life terminable and interminable.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Shelley, P.B., 1792-1822.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe.


1800-1899


Poets, English--19th century--Biography.
18.05 English literature.
Poets, English.


Biography.
Biographies.

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