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Volume : 1/2 - Shelley 1. Percy Shelley

Authors: Casanave Daniel Vandermeulen
Publisher: Europe Comics
Volume: 1
Audience: All ages
Nbr. of pages: 67
Publication date: 14/02/2019
Language: en

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by Greenbrae

Ah! Percy Bysshe Shelley. One of the major Romantic English poets of the early 19th century. A very unusual character, impetuous and novelistic in his private life, “radical in poetry as well as his political and social views” (says our friend Wikipedia). “His life outside social conventions, his fierce idealism and his passionate voice made him both famous and hated by his contemporaries, who saw in him the devil”. Percy Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for his writing of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism in 1811, which he categorically refused to apologise to the Church Authorities for and to repudiate. Unconventional in his marital views, he eloped with and married 16-year-old Harriet he then quickly became estranged with, but not before going to Ireland and writing his Address to the Irish People, calling for Catholic emancipation and a repeal of the Union Act. “His activities earned him the unfavourable attention of the British government”. Noble but disowned, often broke with “an underground readership throughout his life, he saw most publishers declining to publish his work for fear of being arrested for either blasphemy or sedition”. Most interesting is the recognition he received afterwards. Karl Marx admired Shelley for being a revolutionist; Shelley’s writings on nonviolent resistance influenced Leo Tolstoy who in turn helped shape Mahatma Gandhi’s thinking and through him Martin Luther King Jr, and others practicing nonviolence during the American civil rights movement. In current times, isn’t this lineage a gem for British literature? Percy Shelley was also acquainted with some of the most progressive thinkers of his time such as his (second, money-orientated and proponent of anarchism) father-in-law William Godwin. Godwin had been married to philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, parents of Mary Shelley, Percy’s real love. This two-volume biography is actually a great introduction to the lives of one of the finest British lyric and philosophical poets and his second wife who was to become quite a writer herself. Cutting to the chase but witty, claiming to reach a family audience but fascinating when one takes the time to dig a bit deeper afterwards.

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by Miladywrite

Premier des deux volets Shelley, Percy est une biographie romancée du poète Percy Shelley. Jeune dandy issu de la bonne société, son nom est resté dans les mémoires pour sa vie rocambolesque. Renvoyé de l'université pour ses écrits sur l'athéisme, il fait un premier mariage sans le consentement de la famille de sa femme Henriette. Il l'abandonne enceinte d'un enfant dont il lui laissera la charge. Après avoir entretenu une correspondance assidue avec William Godwin, philosophe dont il admire les écrits, il s'installe chez lui et tombe sous le charme de sa cadette Mary Wollstoncraft Godwin, future Mary Shelley. Fille du philosophe et d'une célèbre féministe morte en couches dont elle porte le nom et le prénom, Mary est une jeune femme romantique, littéraire, qui passe des heures seule au cimetière sur la tombe de sa mère à lui lire ses oeuvres. Les deux jeunes gens trouvent l'un chez l'autre un désir de liberté et de création qui les emportera dans le tourbillon de la passion. On ne peut que saluer ce premier tome de l'oeuvre de Casenave et Vandermeulen. Le dessin est réussi et original tout comme le sujet, la mise en scène du couple Shelley dans cette époque de l'Angleterre édouardienne un peu moins rebattue que l'époque victorienne par exemple permet de se laisser emporter dans cette histoire délicieusement rocambolesque où réalité et fiction sont mêlées avec justesse et finesse.

Publisher's summary Europe Comics

Born into an aristocratic family, Percy Bysshe Shelley has no intentions of following in his father's political footsteps. The rebellious young poet finds himself drawn to more scandalous pursuits: supporting anti-royalist and anti-clerical causes, championing vegetarianism, and extolling the virtues of atheism, an act that ultimately leads to his expulsion from Oxford University. Book 1 of "Shelley" lets us dive into Percy's tumultuous childhood, giving us an insight into his friendships with some of the finest progressive thinkers of the times, not to mention his blossoming relationship with his future wife and author of "Frankenstein," Mary. "Shelley is an interesting insight into the early life of one of Romanticism's most esteemed poets. Learning more about his early days sheds light on the work he ferociously created and his rush to live every day fully." Reviews and Robots

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