Category: Poetry
Lack of sympathetic home training--Eton--disappointment in love--Oxford, conditions there bad--meets cynic Hogg--both publish _The Necessity of Atheism_, and are expelled--marries Harriet Westbrook--begins correspondence with Godwin--visits Dublin to aid Catholic Emancipation-...
A description of Shelley's radicalism then must take account of all the circumstances that tended to make him dissatisfied with existing institutions. Some of these circumstance...
7. CHAPTER IIIn September, 1813, Shelley wrote a sonnet, already quoted, to Ianthe, his first child, in which he says that the babe was dear to him not only for its own sweet sake, but for t...
12. CHAPTER VIThe radical, when theorizing, considers man in the abstract. He forgets about actual conditions--man with his inequalities. The only thing necessary, in his view, for the reform...
9. CHAPTER IIISomeone has said that if Shelley had not been a poet he would have been a politician. Certain it is that he gave to politics a great deal of thought and study. On January 26, 18...
10. CHAPTER IV.We now come to that part of our subject which is the most difficult to handle--Shelley's religion. There are so many seeming contradictions in his utterances on this subject tha...
11. CHAPTER VA poet is the product of his time. Shelley observes that there is a resemblance, which does not depend on their own will, between the writers of any particular age. They are all...
5. CHAPTER VI--CONCLUSION 125The following study of the development of the religious and political views of Shelley is made with the view to help one in forming a true estimate of his work and character.
8. Canto IX, where she glories in the triumph of their love over theOur many thoughts and deeds, our life and love, Our happiness, and all that we have been Immortally must live and burn and move When we shall be no more.
2. CHAPTER II--VIEWS ON MARRIAGE AND LOVE 36Parting from Harriet--views on marriage--influence of Godwin, of Lawrence's _The Empire of the Naires_--abuses of marriage in different countries--the _Naires_ a possible source...
4. CHAPTER IV--RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY 87His views on Christianity--not an atheist--agnostic--sources of views on belief, Locke, Spinoza, Drummond--God not a creator-- Pantheism--God, Love, and Beauty identical--immort...
3. CHAPTER III--POLITICS 66Godwin's _Political Justice_--every kind of obedience wrong-- views on kingcraft--on violence and punishment of death--reform through education--principle of justice--laws--owne...
1. CHAPTER I--EARLY INFLUENCES 12Lack of sympathetic home training--Eton--disappointment in love--Oxford, conditions there bad--meets cynic Hogg--both publish _The Necessity of Atheism_, and are expelled--marri...