Shelley: The Pursuit
By Richard Holmes
Harper Collins, 1995. 830 pp., $49.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley was collecting his mail from England at a post office in Rome. When his name was called out, a
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