Anvil Press Poetry. Very Good. Date: 1980. Illustrated Card Covers. 8vo 0856461016 Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! `Shelley's conception of love lies at the heart of his radical views on social justice, political liberty, and poetry itself.' In bringing together for the first time Shelley's almost unknown prose writings on love, Richard Holmes presents an intellectual and emotional portrait of a great poet's beliefs and personality developing from adolescence to the threshold of maturity, when at the age of thirty they were tragically cut short. The anthology does not merely give a Romantic poet's view of romantic passion, but treats of Love at large, in all its forms and manifestations. The collection is divided biographically into six thematic sections, so that the reader may follow closely the development of Shelley's views in response to his experiences. Shelley's wonderfully graceful version of Plato's Symposium is rescued from obscurity,, and three telling extracts from his lesser-read long poems serve to crystallize his attitudes to love at critical points. The coolness and clarity of Shelley's prose, his powers of argument and of concrete description and his fierce intellectual honesty are qualities rare in any age. His social, political and philosophical concerns are of the highest interest, engaging as they do the fundamental quest ...

ISBN10: 0856461016, ISBN13: 9780856461019, [publisher: Anvil Press Poetry] Softcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1980]
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Good. 0856461016 . 247 pages. Covers plasticised. With library stamps and labels. Slight wear to spine, covers and corners. . ISBN 0856461016 9780856461019 [GB]

Paperback. Very Good. ISBN 0856461016 9780856461019 [GB]

ISBN10: 0856461016, ISBN13: 9780856461019, [publisher: Anvil Press Poetry] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1980]