ShelleyGood Press, 2019 M12 6 - 305 pages "Shelley" by John Addington Symonds Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. His expertise allowed him to fairly and thoughtfully critique writers and poets. Both those that were his contemporaries and those who came before him. Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. In this book, Symonds examines Shelley's life from his childhood through his career as a poet, and ending with the last days before his untimely death. |
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