Shelley / a selection by Isabel Quigly
1956, 1st Edition in this form. Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Baltimore: Penguin Books. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #338334
Physical description: 320 pages. Summary: "Shelley's work has been criticized for its undisciplined emotionalism. But essentially he was a poet of ideas, and in his search for truth and original human perfection, Shelley was inspired as much by the Greek poets and philosophers, particularly Plato, as by the radicalism of his own age. Above all, his great gift was his lyricism, and his verse comes as near to music as poetry can. As the poet Kathleen Raine said, "In his art if not in his life, Shelley was able to soar, to give expression to those dreams and visions which, continually broken by reality, are inextinguishable in the human spirit."-- Publisher's description. Subjects: Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822. English poetry 19th century. English poetry. 19th century poetry collections.
Price: €12.95