Shelley

by John Addington Symonds

INDEX.

Adonais, [130], [143];
Shelley’s own criticism of, [144], [153], [180], [186];
quotations from, [145-151]
Address to the Irish People, [59];
purpose of, [60], [61];
quotations from, [61]
Age of Reason (Paine’s), [66]
Alastor, [84];
Shelley’s first serious poem, [85];
its autobiographical value, [86];
quotations from, [87], [153];
self-portraiture in, [98];
last lines quoted, [187-188]
Anamnesis, doctrine of, its stronghold upon Shelley’s imagination, [27-28]
Ancient Mariner, The, allusion to, [183]
Ariosto, Shelley’s first acquaintance with, [72], [111], [112]
Aristotle, [29]
Assassins, The, [83]
Bacon, [151]
Bagni di Lucca, [103], [105]
Ballantyne, Messrs. (publishers), [19]
Bath, Harriet Shelley at, [80], [82], [192], [193]
Baxter, Mr. W. T., [194]
Berkeley, [117]
Bernardo (in The Cenci), [127]
Bethel, Mr., Shelley’s tutor at Eton, [12]
Bisham, beech-groves of, [95]
Bishopsgate Heath, [85]
Blake, William (artist), [126]
Boccaccio, Shelley’s remarks on, [111]
Boinville, Mrs., [76] et seq., [189], [191]
Boscombe, [180]
Bracknell (in Berkshire), [76], [77]
Brentford, [8]
Browne, Miss Felicia (afterwards Mrs. Hemans), [34]
Brunnen (on Lake Lucerne), [83]
Buffon (zoologist), [52]
Byron, Lord, [26];
joins Shelley at Geneva, [88];
accident off rocks of Meillerie, [89];
his description of Shelley, [109], [131], [157], [161], [162], [164];
visited by Shelley, [166]
Calderon, [112];
Shelley’s translations from, [113], [164]
Campbell, Thomas, [19], [130]
Caracalla, Baths of, [95], [104], [118]
Castlereagh, Lord, [58]
Catholic Emancipation, [58], [60], [62]
Cenci, The, [74], [95], [120], [121], [126] et seq., [182], [186]
Chamouni, [90]
Clairmont, Charles, [76], [85]
Clairmont, Claire, [76], [83], [88], [103], [157], [194] et seq.
Clapham Common, [45]
Clifton, [85]
Coleridge, [55], [117], [183]
Dante, [111], [113], [138]
Declaration of Rights, [64] et seq.
Defence of Poetry, [112], [113], [117], [137], [186];
quotation from, [114-116]
De Quincey, [56]
Don Juan (Shelley’s boat), [167]
Eaton, D. J. (printer), [66]
Edinburgh, [51-53], [76]
Edinburgh Journal, [19]
Edwards, Mr. (Shelley’s first tutor), [6]
Eldon, Lord, [81], [93], [130], [193]
Epipsychidion, [86], [136], [138], [141] et seq., [158];
quotations from, [139-140]
Essay on a Future State, [117], [152]
Essay on Christianity, [100], [117]
Essay on the Punishment of Death, [117]
Este, [95], [107]
Eton, [12] et seq.
Fenning, Mrs., [46]
Field Place, [3], [6] et seq., [14], [17], [37], [47], [77]
Florence, [95], [108], [119], [130]
France, [83], [90]
Frankenstein (Mrs. Shelley’s story), [90]
Fraser’s Magazine, [19], [91] note, [92] note
Garnett, Mr. Richard, [80] note, [81], [83], [121], [130] note, [143], [169], [186] note
Gebir (Landor’s), [33]
Geneva, [88];
Lake of, [89]
Gisborne, Mr., [112], [121], [136]
Gisborne, Mrs., [110], [112], [119]
Godwin, Mary, [76], [79] et seq., [85], [88];
marriage with Shelley, [93], [190] et seq.
Godwin, William, [21], [49] note, [56] et seq., [67], [76], [77], [85] note, [93], [107], [110], [191], [194], [195]
Goodall, Dr., [12]
Great Marlow, [92]
Greystoke, [56]
Grove, Harriet, [18], [20], [21], [47]
Grove, Mr. C. H. (Shelley’s cousin), [51]
Guiccioli, Countess, [157]
Hellas, [154];
quotation from, [156-157]
Hemans, Mrs. See [Browne, Miss F.]
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (Mrs. Shelley’s), [84]
Hitchener, Miss Eliza, [47], [65]
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, [7], [9], [14-16], [21], [22];
his description of Shelley at Oxford, [23] et seq., [33], [37], [43] et seq., [67], [68], [71] et seq., [82], [85], [100], [108], [131], [161], [186] note, [187], [193]
Homer, [74], [112];
Shelley’s translations from, [113]
Hookham, Mr. T., [71], [192]
Horsham, [3], [17], [20], [56]
Hume, [27], [35]
Hunt, Leigh, [34], [80] note, [92], [100] et seq., [109], [121], [128], [136], [157], [176], [179], [180], [187]
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, [16], [86], [87], [123]
Imlay, Fanny, [76], [77], [107]
Invocation to Night, the, quotation from, [159-160]
Ireland, Shelley in, [58], [59], [63], [64]
Italy, [103], [109], [110], [169]
Julian and Maddalo, quotations from, [105-106], [132]
Kant, [68], [117]
Keats, [100], [130], [143], [145], [146];
description of his resting-place by Shelley, [148-149]
Keswick, [55], [56], [58]
Laon and Cythna, [8], [9], [17], [90], [95];
present title, The Revolt of Islam, [97], [98], [103], [122]
Leghorn, [74], [95], [119], [131], [176] et seq.
Lerici, [131], [154], [168], [177]
Letters, extracts from Shelley’s, [48], [50], [54] et seq., [65], [69], [78], [104], [110], [112], [116], [118], [128], [129], [130], [135-136], [141], [143], [159]
Letter to Lord Ellenborough, [66], [67]
Letter to Maria Gisborne, [15], [132];
quotation from, [133-134]
Lewis, Monk, [19], [20], [90]
Lind, Dr., [17], [34], [44]
Lines written among Euganean Hills, [107]
Locke, [27], [35]
Lodore (Mrs. Shelley’s novel), [196]
London, [37], [43], [47], [48], [50], [68], [72], [76], [81], [83], [92], [107], [108], [191], [192]
Masque of Anarchy, [120]
Matthews (the comedian), [19]
Medwin, Captain, his description of Shelley, [8], [10-11], [19], [80] note, [85];
relates incidents in Shelley’s life, [107-108], [134-135]
Meillerie, scene of shipwreck, [89]
Milton, his influence on Shelley, [86]
Moore, [144-145]
Naples, [103], [107], [108], [110]
Necessity of Atheism, The, [35], [40], [57]
Nicholson, Peg, [34]
Norfolk, Duke of, [3], [5], [18], [29], [56], [68]
North Wales, [47], [66], [68]
Ode to a Skylark, [132]
Ode to Liberty, [132], [153]
Ode to Naples, [132]
Ode to the West Wind, [119], [120], [185]
Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire, [20], [34]
Oxford, [15], [17];
University College, [21];
Shelley dismissed from, [36]
Paine, Thomas, [66]
Paris, [83]
Peacock, Mr., [71], [75], [77], [79], [85] et seq., [103], [113], [114], [116], [118], [128], [180], [186] note, [187], [191]
Penshurst, [4]
Peter Bell the Third, [120]
Petrarch, [72], [111]
Pilfold, Captain, [47], [51]
Pilfold, Charles, [3]
Pilfold, Elizabeth, [3]
Pisa, [95], [103], [108], [131], [138], [154] et seq., [165], [168], [176-178]
Plato, [27], [68], [100], [112], [113], [138], [151], [165], [176], [185]
Political Justice (W. Godwin’s), [56], [57], [82], [192]
Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, [34]
Prince Athanase, [17], [97], [98]
Prometheus Unbound, [95], [107], [117] note, [118] et seq., [128], [129], [136], [144];
quotation from, [125], [126]
Proposal for an Association, [62], [64]
Proposals for putting Reform to the Vote, [63]
Quarterly Review, [130], [135], [143], [144]
Queen Mab, [18], [56], [69], [70], [76], [81], [88], [97], [193]
Radcliffe, Mrs., [19]
Ravenna, [89], [108], [157]
Refutation of Deism, [77]
Rejected Addresses (Smith’s), [100]
Retzsch (engraver), [113]
Revolt of Islam, The (Laon and Cythna), [8], [9], [17], [90], [95], [97], [98], [103], [122]
Roberts, Captain, [167]
Rome, [24], [103], [110], [118], [143], [178], [180]
Rosalind and Helen, [98]
Rossetti, Mr. W. M., [44], [48], [66], [187]
Ryan, Major, [195]
Sensitive Plant, The, [132];
quotations from, [152-153]
Shelley, Sir Bysshe, [3], [4], [53]
Shelley, Charles Bysshe (second son), [193], [195], [196]
Shelley, Elizabeth, [3], [19], [20], [47]
Shelley, Harriet, [52], [59], [60], [64], [65], [72], [76], [78];
deserted by Shelley, [79], [80], [81];
commits suicide, [82], [190], [197]
Shelley, Hellen, [3], [6], [45]
Shelley, Ianthe Eliza,

[75]
Shelley, John, [3]
Shelley, Lady, [66] note, [81], [83], [180], [186] note, [191]
Shelley, Margaret, [3]
Shelley, Mary, [79], [111], [112], [154], [158]
Shelley, Mr., [53]
Shelley, Mrs. (second wife), [12], [13], [73], [74], [84], [86], [95], [100], [102], [108-110], [117], [118], [132], [159], [161], [180], [196]
Shelley, Miss, [14], [19]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [2];
birth of, [3];
position, [4], [5];
relations with father, [6];
sent to Sion House, Brentford, [8];
subject to sleep-walking, [8];
distaste for school games, [8];
goes to Eton (1804), [12];
life there, [12-13], [15];
experiments in chemistry and electricity, [14];
his taste for science, [14-15];
farewell supper at Eton, [16];
attachment to Harriet Grove, [18];
yearns for fame and publicity, [19];
finishes Zastrozzi, [19];
his literary productions, [19-21];
enters University College, Oxford, as Leicester Scholar (1810), [21];
friendship with Hogg, [22-33];
genesis of Posthumous Fragments, [34];
correspondence with distinguished persons, [34];
his favourite authors, [35];
antagonistic to Christianity, [35];
publication of The Necessity of Atheism, [35];
his expulsion from Oxford with Hogg, [36], [37], [38];
his atheistical opinions, [39], [40];
settles with Hogg in London, [43];
his contempt for Paley’s Evidences, [44];
quarrels with his father, [44];
his poverty, [45];
helped by his sisters, [45];
visits his sisters at Clapham School, meets Harriet Westbrook, [45];
pays her frequent visits, [46];
revisits his old home, [47];
receives allowance of £200 a year, [47];
elopement and marriage with Harriet, [51];
life in George Street, Edinburgh, [52];
removes to York and resides with Hogg, [53];
arrival of Harriet’s sister Eliza, [53];
leaves York, [55];
goes to Keswick, [55];
visits Duke of Norfolk, [55];
his friendship with Godwin, [58];
sets sail for Ireland, [59];
his Address to Irish People distributed, [59];
makes his debut as an orator, leaves Ireland, [64];
corresponds with Eliza Hitchener, [65];
settles at Nantgwilt, [66];
his Letter to Lord Ellenborough, [67];
goes to Tanyrallt, [68];
sudden flight from Tanyrallt, [70];
subject to hallucinations, [70], [71];
poverty, [71];
goes to London and takes rooms in Half-Moon Street, [72];
habits of his household, [72-73];
personal details, [73-75];
friendship with Mrs. Boinville and the Godwins, [76];
love for Mary Godwin, [79-80];
remarried to Harriet, [80];
his separation from Harriet, [80];
leaves England with Mary, [83];
return to England, [84];
walks London Hospital, [84];
commences poem of Alastor, [85];
birth of William Shelley, [88];
second journey to Switzerland, [88];
joined by Byron, [88];
makes tour to Lake Geneva with Byron, [89];
excursion to Chamouni, [90];
hallucinations, [91];
returns to England and lives at Great Marlow, [91-92];
hears of Harriet’s death, [92];
friendship with Leigh Hunt, [92-93];
Chancery suit re Harriet’s children, [93];
works steadily at Laon and Cythna, [95];
meets Keats and the brothers Smith at Leigh Hunt’s house, [100];
his daily routine described, [100];
leaves England for Italy, [103];
pays visit to Lord Byron, [105];
improved health, [108];
companionship with Byron, [109];
his ideas on Italian poets, [111];
begins to study Spanish, [112];
composes Defence of Poetry, [113];
settles in Rome, [118];
loss of son William, [118];
removes to near Leghorn, [119];
begins and finishes The Cenci, [119];
removes to Florence, [119];
birth of Sir P. Florence Shelley, [119];
attitude towards his critics, [130];
removes to Pisa, [131];
his high ideal of verse composition, [137];
visits the Contessina Emilia Viviani, [138];
sympathy for her, [138];
his criticisms, [144];
at work upon Hellas, [154];
visits Byron at Ravenna, [157];
his affection for Jane Williams, [159];
first acquaintance with Trelawny at Pisa, [161];
accident, [165];
his daily routine, [165];
daily visit to Byron, [166];
nautical affairs, [166-167];
takes a home (Villa Magni) at Spezia, [168-169];
at Pisa with Leigh Hunt, [176];
return voyage, [177];
storm, loss of Shelley’s boat, [177];
discovery of bodies, [178];
cremation, [179-180];
burial at Rome, [180];
review of life and work, [182];
his genius, [183-186];
portrait of, [186-187]
Attachment to his sisters, [6];
his love of games, [6], [7];
sensitiveness, [11];
powers of memory, [15];
personality, [25];
his voice, [25];
his moral character, [32-33];
love for mankind, [40];
his faith, [41];
his creed, [41-42];
remorse, [92];
his charity, [101], [119];
self-denial, [102];
sensibility to art, [104];
his melancholy, [107];
his self-criticism, [128];
his thoughts of death, [151-152], [154];
his mental activity, [162];
the tranquillity in his life, [169];
his nicknames, [166];
nervousness, [175];
somnambulism, [175]
Life of, by Professor Dowden, [v]
Shelley, Sir Percy Florence, [3], [119]
Shelley, Timothy, [3], [5], [6], [44]
Shelley, William, [88], [118], [178]
Sidney, Philip Charles, [4]
Sion House (Shelley’s school), [6], [8], [12], [14], [18]
Sophocles, [1], [165], [178]
Southey, Shelley’s favourite poet whilst at Sion House, [19], [55], [196]
Speculations on Metaphysics, [91], [117]
St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, [21]
Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples, quotation from, [153-154]
Stockdale, Mr. J. J. (publisher), [19], [20]
Swellfoot the Tyrant, [120]
Taafe, Mr., [164]
Tasso, [72], [111], [137]
To his Genius, [143]
Trelawny, Captain, [161], [162];
description of first meeting with Shelley, [163-164];
meets Shelley in Pisan Maremma, [165] et seq., [186] note, [187]
Triumph of Life (Shelley’s last great poem), [95], [170], [171];
quotations from, [171-175]
Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Beaumont and Fletcher’s), [112]
University Magazine, letter on Harriet Westbrook, [48], [49]
Venice, [89], [103], [107], [110]
Vivian, Charles (a sailor), [167], [177], [178]
Viviani, Contessina Emilia, [138], [158]
Wandering Jew, [19]
Westbrook, Mr., [93]
Westbrook, Eliza, [46], [53] et seq., [65], [71] et seq.
Westbrook, Harriet, [18], [45];
first acquaintance with Shelley, [46] et seq.;
elopement with Shelley, marriage at Edinburgh, [51].
See [Shelley, Harriet]
Westbrook, “Jew,” [46], [51], [54]
Wilkie and Robinson, Messrs. (publishers), [19]
Williams, Mr., [109], [154], [158] et seq., [176-179], [187]
Williams, Mrs. (Jane), [154], [158], [159], [163], [164], [169]
Windsor, [17];
Forest of, [85]
Witch of Atlas, [132]
Wollstonecraft, Mary, [76], [110]
Wordsworth, [55], [56], [86], [130], [183]
York, [48], [51], [53], [55]
Zastrozzi, [16];
reviewed, [19], [21]
Zofloya the Moor (supposed source of Zastrozzi), [19]

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Footnotes:

[1] Forman’s edition, vol. iv. p. 115.

[2] See Medwin, vol. i. p. 68.

[3] He told Trelawny that he had been attracted to Shelley simply by his “rare talents as a scholar;” and Trelawny has recorded his opinion that Hogg’s portrait of their friend was faithful, in spite of a total want of sympathy with his poetic genius. This testimony is extremely valuable.

[4] It is probable that he saw her for the first time in January, 1811.

[5] See Shelley’s third letter to Godwin (Hogg, ii. p. 63) for another defence of his conduct. “We agreed,” &c.

[6] See Dowden’s Life of Shelley, vol. i. pp. 190-194.

[7] McCarthy, p. 255.

[8] It was published in Dublin. See reprint in McCarthy, p. 179.

[9] Reprinted in McCarthy, p. 324.

[10] Reprinted in Lady Shelley’s Memorials, p. 29.

[11] This and the next four pages have to be rewritten since the appearance of Professor Dowden’s Life. See Appendix.

[12] Leigh Hunt, Autob. p. 236, and Medwin, however, both assert that it was by mutual consent. The whole question must be studied in Peacock and in Garnett, Relics of Shelley, p. 147.

[13] See Letter to Godwin in Shelley Memorials, p. 78.

[14] Fraser’s Magazine, Jan., 1860, p. 98.

[15] Forman, iii. 148.

[16] Fraser, Jan., 1860, p. 102.

[17] How many copies were put in circulation is not known. There must certainly have been many more than the traditional three; for when I was a boy at Harrow, I picked up two uncut copies in boards at a Bristol bookshop, for the price of 2s. 6d. a piece.

[18] See Note on Poems of 1819, and compare the lyric “The billows on the beach.”

[19] Medwin’s Life of Shelley, vol. i. 324. His date, 1814, appears from the context to be a misprint.

[20] Note on the Revolt of Islam.

[21] Letter from Florence, Nov., 1819.

[22] See Letter to Ollier, Jan. 20, 1820, Shelley Memorials, p. 135.

[23] See Mrs. Shelley’s note on the Revolt of Islam, and the whole Preface to the Prose Works.

[24] Note on Prometheus.

[25] Note on Revolt of Islam.

[26] Forman, vol. ii. p. 181.

[27] Ibid. p. 231.

[28] Shelley Memorials, p. 121. Garnett’s Relics of Shelley, pp. 49, 190. Collected Letters, p. 147, in Moxon’s Edition of Works in one vol. 1840.

[29] See Medwin, vol. ii. p. 172, for Shelley’s comment on the difficulty of the poet’s art.

[30] Forman, iv. p. 95.

[31] See the Letter to Leigh Hunt, Pisa, Aug. 26, 1821.

[32] “The Serpent in shut out from Paradise.”

[33] Vol. iv. p. 89.

[34] See Lady Shelley v. Hogg; Trelawny v. the Shelley family; Peacock v. Lady Shelley; Garnett v. Peacock; Garnett v. Trelawny; McCarthy v. Hogg, &c., &c.

[35] This poem may be read in full in Professor Dowden’s Life, vol. i. p. 413.

[36] Vol. i. p. 429.

[37] Vol. ii. p. 65.

[38] These three documents will be found in vol. ii. p. 98; vol. i. pp. 424, 425.

[39] Mr. Dowden omits the second sentence in his quotation. Vol. i. p. 426.

[40] Vol. ii. p. 88.

[41] See Mr. Dowden’s own critique of this witness in Appendix B. to vol. ii. Compare vol. i. p. 440.

[42] Vol. i. p. 428.

[43] Vol. i. p. 415.

[44] Vol. i. p. 465.

[45] Vol. i. pp. 436-438.