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Author: Thomas Love Peacock Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This fantastic volume contains a collection of Thomas Love Peacock's best essays and reviews, including his "Memoirs of Shelley," a unique and insightful biography of his close friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Contents include: "Memoirs of Shelley," "Part I," "Part II," "Supplementary Notes," "An Essay on Fashionable Literature," "The Four Ages of Poetry," "Jefferson's Memoirs," "Essays on Musical Subjects," "French Comic Romances," "The Epicier," "The Last Day of Windsor Forest," etc. Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866) was an English poet, novelist, and important figure in the East India Company. A good friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, they both had a significant influence on each other's work. Peacock was most famous for writing satirical novels, which usually involved characters sat around a table discussing contemporary philosophical ideas. Other notable works by this author include: "Maid Marian" (1822), "Gryll Grange" (1861), and "Melincourt" (1817). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author: Thomas Love Peacock Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This fantastic volume contains a collection of Thomas Love Peacock's best essays and reviews, including his "Memoirs of Shelley," a unique and insightful biography of his close friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Contents include: "Memoirs of Shelley," "Part I," "Part II," "Supplementary Notes," "An Essay on Fashionable Literature," "The Four Ages of Poetry," "Jefferson's Memoirs," "Essays on Musical Subjects," "French Comic Romances," "The Epicier," "The Last Day of Windsor Forest," etc. Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866) was an English poet, novelist, and important figure in the East India Company. A good friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, they both had a significant influence on each other's work. Peacock was most famous for writing satirical novels, which usually involved characters sat around a table discussing contemporary philosophical ideas. Other notable works by this author include: "Maid Marian" (1822), "Gryll Grange" (1861), and "Melincourt" (1817). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author: G. Kim Blank Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349212253 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 285
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The last two decades have seen the business of researching and writing about Percy Bysshe Shelley change in positive and significant ways. Shelleyan characteristics which were once deemed negative are now reviewed as critically engaging qualities. The New Shelley: Later Twentieth-Century Views is a collection of original essays by some of the leading Romanticists which situates Shelley for our own age, but not only by contextualizing him within our own scene of critical practice, but also by replacing him within his own scene of poetic production.
Author: James Bieri Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874138931 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 462
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"Shelley found a retreat on the Bay of Lerici where, joined by his friends Edward and Jane Williams, he sailed his new boat and confided darkening thoughts to Edward Trelawny. Shelley's love lyrics to Jane, his last inamorata, were written as he composed his final great work, The Triumph of Life, broken off by his untimely drowning, a controversial sailing tragedy that is considered here in detail. Shelley's fascinating posthumous life is narrated in the subsequent intermingled lives of the poet's most intimate associates."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: James Wood Publisher: Brandeis University Press ISBN: 1611687438 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 94
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In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of individual works - among others, Chekhov's story "The Kiss," W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower. Wood reveals his own intimate relationship with the written word: we see the development of a provincial boy growing up in a charged Christian environment, the secret joy of his childhood reading, the links he makes between reading and blasphemy, or between literature and music. The final section discusses fiction in the context of exile and homelessness. The Nearest Thing to LifeÊis not simply a brief, tightly argued book by a man commonly regarded as our finest living critic - it is also an exhilarating personal account that reflects on, and embodies, the fruitful conspiracy between reader and writer (and critic), and asks us to reconsider everything that is at stake when we read and write fiction.
Author: M. Garrett Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137328517 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 550
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This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries on all the major poems and prose works (including inspiration, composition and publication), Shelley's politics, relationships and travels, his representation in novels, drama, film and portraits, and his critical reception.
Author: Madeleine Callaghan Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199558361 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 734
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The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles.
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Author: Hugh Roberts
Author: G. Kim Blank
Author: James Bieri
Author: James Wood
Author: M. Garrett
Author: Madeleine Callaghan