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Right inside a poet's head ; Being Shelley: the Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20070625
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PERCY Bysshe Shelley had an experience as a schoolboy as powerful and compelling as St Paul's on the road to Damascus, but hardly knew what it was he dedicated his life to at that moment. He imagined it as the Spirit of Beauty, encompassing Truth, Liberty and Love as well. "He could not even try to name what it was," Ann Wroe tells us in her amazing new book on the poet, but his search for it "became his history, and his life." Wroe, author of acclaimed biographies of Pontius Pilate and Perkin Warbeck, follows her subject in his love of the quest and unconcern about the quarry. Abandoning the ...

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