This book is a slightly revised translation of the author's Percy Bysshe Shelley. Leben und Werk (1998), the first German biography of the deplorably neglected English romantic. It frees the poet from both melodramatic fictionalizing and idealizing mystification. By making use of the fascinating correspondence of the young avantgardist, his famous wife Mary, his friends and critics, as well as ample quotation from his poetry and prose, the biography awakens the reader to a deeper appreciation of a dramatic life, of modern dimensions, and a significant work of lasting poetical and political value. An updated bibliography and an index are included.

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The Author: Horst Höhne received his Ph.D. in 1960 from Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. He taught English and American literature at Humboldt and Rostock Universities, and held the Rockstock Chair of English literature from 1962 until his retirement in 1992. He has published widely on eighteenth- and twentieth-century drama and English romantic poetry. Recent books are Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ausgewählte Werke, Dichtung und Prosa (Hrsg. 1990); Life and Literature: Essays (Peter Lang, 1996); Percy Bysshe Shelley. Leben und Werk (Peter Lang, 1998).