<p>John Addington Symonds's 'Shelley' is a meticulous foray into the complex world of one of the most enigmatic poets that the English literary canon has celebrated. Symonds, with both scholastic rigor and a poet's sensitivity, distills the essence of Percy Bysshe Shelley's life and work, casting a luminescent beam on the latter's commitment to Romantic ideals. Approaching Shelley's literature with an investment in contextualizing his contributio...