Karoline’s Reviews > [(Shelley: The Pursuit )] [Author: Richard Holmes] [May-2003] > Status Update

I feel like Austen's Henry Tilney reading Ann Radcliffe

"when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again; I remember finishing it in two days - my hair standing on end the whole time"

it's almost awe-inspiring to behold the grandiose selfishness and destructiveness Shelley sows through every relationship while passionately claiming to be a prophet of higher love & a new and holier way of life

thought I would read a biography of one of the late Romantic poets after reading a biography of one of the earliest & I'm wondering if Shelley was actually demon possessed