It is a mark of his distinction and originality as a scholar that something that might seem as hoary as Shelleys Platonism should get such an invigorating new breath of life, the culmination of this consistently pleasurable and illuminating book.
Kelvin Everest taught English Literature at St David's University College Lampeter and Leicester University, and since 1991 he has been A.C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, where he also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for 15 years. Professor Everest has held visiting positions at St John's College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge and he has published widely on the English Romantic poets, in books, edited collections, and
journals. Since the early 1980s, he has been editing the Complete Poems of Shelley for the Longman Annotated English Poets series, published in five volumes.