Shelley: A Life Story
 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Edmund Blunden |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Publisher | Collins St. James's |
Publication date | 1946 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-1121955691 |
Shelley: A Life Story is a 1946 biography of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edmund Blunden. The work was favorably reviewed and has been called the best life of Shelley.
Reception
Shelley: A Life Story received a positive review in Time magazine in 1947. The reviewer noted that the book had been "greeted in England as the first really satisfactory life of England's great romantic poet", adding that "Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity—not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which he lived and the mass of material about him."[1] The gay scholar John Lauritsen, writing in The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein (2007), called Blunden's book the best life of Shelley, commenting that Blunden "brings a poet's understanding to Shelley's life and poetry."[2]
References
Footnotes
- ↑ Time 1947, p. 110.
- ↑ Lauritsen 2007, p. 225.
Bibliography
- Books
- Lauritsen, John (2007). The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein. New Haven: Pagan Press. ISBN 978-0-943742-14-4.
- Journals
