Shelley has been the subject of much biographical scrutiny but this is a wholly new approach. The result is an exhilarating and intimate insight into the mental landscape of the quintessential Romantic poet.

Based on Shelley's notebooks and sketches as well as his poetry and letters (Anne Wroe remarks on details such as how heavily or lightly the pen or pencil is used, reflecting his emotion at the time), the book is not chronological but divided into sections focusing on the elements: he was drawn to water all through his short life, and, indeed, in death.

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