Hermit in Paris - Italo Calvino Martin Mooij Percy Bysshe Shelley was one

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language

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Hermit in Paris - Italo Calvino Martin Mooij Percy Bysshe Shelley was oneItalo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers. The pieces collected here range from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed just before his sudden death in 1985.