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Shelley at Oxford

By Heathcote Williams

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Shelley at Oxford

By Heathcote Williams

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Although an aristocrat by birth, Shelley became a rebel, a passionate revolutionary, whose life's purpose was to attack tyranny and injustice in state and society. Famous for his nature poetry he is often presented to us as the crown of English romanticism. In reality, however, Shelley's nature lyrics are secondary to his visionary political poems, which became inspirational texts for radicals and early socialists. Shelley's career of rebellion began at Oxford, where he was expelled for atheism. From this crucial starting-point, Heathcote Williams provides us with a new account of Shelley's message and gives us back the real Shelley, the intellectual revolutionary free of the romantic stereotype. In Shelley at Oxford, we have a raw and incendiary wild-child, brought to life in a piece of writing that shows exactly why Shelley is thought of as so scorchingly subversive some two centuries later. Biographical note(s): Heathcote Williams is an anarchist, magician, and writer. His unique form of polemical poetry, which questions and challenges established power and authority, is in the great tradition of visionary dissent. In many ways Williams is Shelley's modern-day hear. Quotes about: "I just finished reading Shelley at Oxford. What a glorious and fiery piece that is. I love it. It's uplifting and inspiring . . . and made my evening." -- Boff Whalley of Chumawamba
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
32
Release Date:
2012-12-20
Publication Date:
2012-12-20
Publisher:
Huxley Scientific Press
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1909214027
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