Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books) Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of "a darker and more earthly, crueler and more capable figure.B.
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| Title | : | Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books) |
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590170377 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 830 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
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Editorial : "Shelley: The Pursuit achieves a superlative in biography: its subject's presence -- that of a disturbing, seductive, gifted, destructive man whose essence is mutiny. Holmes makes us feel the combination of originality, intensity, and dependency that made the poet so beguiling."
Shelley: The Pursuit is the book with which Richard Holmes—the finest literary biographer of our day—made his name. Dispensing with the long-established Victorian picture of Shelley as a blandly ethereal character, Holmes projects a startling image of "a darker and more earthly, crueler and more capable figure." Expelled from college, disowned by his aristocratic father, driven from England, Shelley led a life marked from its beginning to its early end by a violent rejection of society; he embraced rebellion and disgrace without thought of the cost to himself or to others. Here we have the real Shelley—radical agitator, atheist, apostle of free love, but above all a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator, whose life and work have proved an essential inspiration to poets as varied as W.B. Yeats and Allen Ginsberg.
Rather, he is presenting a formal axiomatic theory of sets that presents the concepts of set theory in a mathematically elegant way.
The reason I gave this book four stars, despite the lack of readability, is that the formal system presented by Bernays is, in my opinion, a mathematical work of art. Such mediocrity is clearly reflected in his writing "abilities"one suspects that he probably displayed the same lack of integrity during his Air Force career that is so clearly shown in this book.
The review by "Raven" is dead onit's a bit scarey to read the glowing reviews of this book, predominantly from those who never served in SEA and who obviously believe "JT's" fairy tale.
Having read hundreds of books on the Vietnam era, and having performed the identical mission that Halliday didhe'd get laughed out of any "Candlestick" reunion.. But I can't avoid the feeling that the author got stuck in '80s and is not aware of the recent development.
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