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Shelley: character: ability to laugh at himself, 113, 174; callousness, cruelty, 7, 175–6, 666–7; class consciousness, 150–2; Coleridge’s view, 94, 543–5; eccentricity, 19, 30, 31, 39, 55, 218, 221, 361, 374; egotism, 15, 22, 47, 299; fascination for fire, 3, 17, 149–50, 174, 255, 257, 344; generosity, 22, 168, 187, 350, 351; Hampstead set’s views, 359–62; Hunt’s views, 63; hypochondria, pose of ill-health, 143 n., 218, 220–1; instability, 22, 56, 58, 62, 113, 288, 290; manipulation of people’s fears, intimidation, 1, 2–3, 13, 17, 88, 110, 248, 257–61, 330, 362–3, 374, 461; Mary Shelley’s views, 20–2; melodramatic self-projection, 12, 46–7, 77, 83, 104–5, 114, 183, 667, 688; mental relief in writing poetry, 656; mischievous humour, 689–90; Peacock’s opinion, 217–18, 221; and portrait-parody in Nightmare Abbey, 375–6; public joking combined with private meditation, 292; puritanism, 86, 108, 201, 203, 248, 264, 297, 448–9, 515; reflected in Queen Mab, 203; self-analysis, self-portrait, 103, 264–6, 390, 450–7, 633, 658–60; self-confidence, arrogance, 18, 19, 254, 359, 383–4; self-identification with Devil, 106–7, 110, 139; sense of personal inadequacies, 145, 288; solitude, awareness of, 64–5; spiritual exile, sense of, 66, 333–4, 351, 379, 510, 528; split between public and private attitudes, 365; violent temper, 5–6, 13, 19, 20, 88, 113
Shelley: fantasy and horror: ‘aesthetic of terror’, 261–2; The Cenci, 483, 514–16, 523–5; in ‘The Colosseum’, 461; dreams, catalogue, journal of, 65–6, 295–6, 583; ‘fit of fancy’ at Villa Diodati, 328–30, 626; Frankenstein (Mary’s), 330–4; ghost-invoking, stories, 111, 113–14, 135, 328, 344; gothic horror fiction, influence of, 3, 13, 14, 31, 221, 274; Great Snake and Great Tortoise legends, 1, 2–3, 258, 737; hallucination and ghost theories of Tan-yr-allt shooting incident, 187 & n., 190 & n., 193–5, 196 & n.; ‘Hell’ section of Peter Bell the Third, 553–4; in Hellas, 680–1; imaginary world of childhood, 2–3, 5, 6, 13; Kentish Town ritual horror sessions, 257–61, 275, 681; macabre, sense of, 42–3, 217–18, 248; Maniac in ‘Julian and Maddalo’, 454–5; mesmerism, 626–7, 701; in ‘Mont Blanc’, 341; occultism, study of, 16, 24–5, 96; ‘On Devils and the Devil’, 604–7; Plato’s intermediary world of daemons, 437, 495, 627, 681, 718; in The Revolt of Islam, 398–400; in St Irvyne, 31, 39–40; in ‘The Sensitive Plant’, 582; somnambulism, 6, 66, 627; terror contrasted with loveliness, 479; terror treatment of children, 362–3, 374; in ‘The Triumph of Life’, 718–19, 722–3; in Victor and Cazire, 33–5; in ‘A Vision of the Sea’, 582–3; visions and nightmares, 6, 13, 14, 715, 727; Walpurgisnacht scene from Faust, 692–4; in ‘The Witch of Atlas’, 604–7; Zastrozzi, 31–2
Shelley: general ideas and attitudes: agriculture, 576; astronomy, 80, 204; children, 114–15, 205–6, 207; clergymen, 288; death, 70, 72, 348, 358; divided self, 436, 491, 497, 504; education, 27, 69–70, 152–3; evil, 499–502, 515, 523–4; free love, 90, 91, 93, 153, 156, 201, 202, 204–8, 272, 401, 402, 632–3; graphology, 458–9; Greek ideal, 477–8; hermaphroditism, bisexuality, 436, 517, 566, 604, 605–6; homosexuality, male friendship, 14–15, 295, 431–2, 433–4, 435–6, 566; ideal beauty, external form of, 542; ideal woman, 43, 632, 722; Illuminism, 52–3, 118, 126–7, 198, 387; Italian Women, 418, 428, 449, 481, 486–7; love, 34, 44, 46, 49, 64 n., 201, 204–8, 227–8, 247, 299, 301–2, 435–6, 490, 499–502, 504, 538, 544, 722; marriage, 64, 68–9, 77–8, 84, 90, 153, 156, 201, 205–6, 209, 210; mesmerism, 626–7; metaphysics, 41–2, 294–5; nature, 74, 202, 339–41, 489–90, 492, 497, 504; poetry, the poet, 156, 381, 475, 584–6, 641–6, 659–60; ‘principle of self’, 657; principles of life, 328; public reputation and fame, 551–5; reliefs and sculpture, 15, 488, 565–8; science, 16, 24–5, 41, 44–5, 75 n., 96, 153, 202, 328, 506–7; ‘science of the mind’ (psychology), 292–3, 294–5, 297–300; self-love, narcissism, 64, 72, 152, 299, 303, 332; sexuality, sexual love, 44, 151, 153, 204, 205, 207, 227–9, 247, 256–7, 266 n., 272, 303–6, 372 & n., 433–7, 644; solitude, 64–5, 70, 289–90, 301, 302, 332, 336 n.; suicide, 70; translation, 643; vegetarianism, 156, 200, 201, 209, 217, 220, 373; Zoroastrianism, 495, 497
Shelley: political and moral ideology: in An Address to the Irish People, 120–2; aristocracy and monarchy, 72, 76, 87, 121, 201, 386, 387; atheism, religion, 46–8, 49–51, 54–5, 56–7, 62–3, 67, 72–3, 75–6, 94, 96, 98, 100–1, 121, 154–5, 201, 204, 209, 210, 280, 340, 341, 361, 402, 436–7, 459, 514–15, 557–8, 571, 673, 678, 711; chastity/promiscuity, 205, 206; communal life, 150–1; ‘constitutional presence’ of the people, 586, 587; in Declaration of Rights, 138–9; Deism as precondition for social reform, 101; economic exploitation, 385, 386–7, 586–7; egalitarianism, 85, 86, 87, 100, 121, 150–1, 203, 588; in ‘On the Existing State of Things’, 151; evolution of liberty theory, 118; freedom of assembly, 121, 122, 591; freedom of the press, 144, 154–6; Godwin’s influence, 97–8, 103, 121, 122, 432; hypocrisy of society, 12–13, 533, 553–4; individual virtue in political affairs, 63–4; labour theory of value, 201, 202; liberty, 100, 118, 387–8, 392, 583; Malthusian social theory, 576, 586; in Mask of Anarchy, 532–7; mass political demonstrations, 535–7; methodical society, 52; misuse of wealth, 73; modern political revolution, 400, 401, 444; moral bigotry as political reactionism, 141–2; national debt, 586, 587–8, 589; natural v. corrupt society, 245–6; obscenity, 434; parliamentary reform, 589–91; Philhellenism, 678–81; poetry’s role in political reform, 584–6, 591, 642–3, 645; political associations, 119, 120, 122, 123, 126–7, 128, 129–30, 131, 165 n.; political violence issue, 6, 118, 120–1, 122; popularism, 151–2; in Preface to Laon and Cythna, 382–3; private property, 588; Prometheus Unbound, vision of political freedom in, 490–1, 493–4, 504–5, 507–8; prostitution, 153, 201, 205, 206, 434, 553, 638; Quarterly attack on, 543–4; in Queen Mab, 201–8; reform movement in England, 345–50, 363–6, 385–8, 569, 580, 583–93; religion, see atheism; slavery, 433–4, 478 n.; social and moral freedom, 401–2, 444, 490; social oppression and poverty, 74–5, 76, 107–9, 121–2, 127–8, 386–7, 475–7, 557–8, 562–3, 586–7; Southey’s influence, 99–102; universal suffrage, 365, 586, 589–90; venereal disease, 202, 328, 506–7; women’s rights, 393, 401–2, 433–4, 478 n.
Shelley: imagery and themes: airship, 308, 504, 561, 604; ‘asylum’ incident, 31–2; autobiographical theme, 305, 632, 633, 635–9; bisexual theme, 517, 566, 604, 605–6, 632; chariots, 502–5, 720–1; comet, 108, 503, 504, 636–7 & n.; courtly love, 631–2, 633; death, 294, 520, 650, 656–8; desolation, 496–8, 620; Devil, 106–7, 621, 627, 693–4; eagle, 397, 494; electricity, 506–7, 604; erotic, 303–5, 394–6, 498–9, 567, 631–2, 722; erupting volcano, 118 & n., 372, 502, 504, 505 & n., 561; eternal rebirth theme, 599, 606–7; external imagery used to evoke mental states, 491–2; fire, 149–50, 493, 499, 502, 506, 604; hauntings and horror, 114, 289, 290, 341, 582–4, 627, 649, 692–4; incest theme, 380, 390–1, 393, 394, 402, 514, 524, 543; journey, 65, 505, 659–60; liberty, 118, 387, 388; magnetic woman, 627; metropolitan life, 106–7, 553–4, 597; moon, 268–9, 358, 611–12, 630, 635, 636, 637; mother and child motif, 532, 534, 556, 562–4, 567, 582; mountain, 339–40; multiple, 492–3, 494, 632, 635–6, 722; pairing of themes in ‘public’ and domestic poems, 380, 516; personification, use of, 293, 532–5, 635–7, 685; primitive man in darkness, 210–11; processional, 387–8, 502–3, 532–3, 554, 718; psychoanalytic, 516, 517, 523, 524; pursuit, 25, 31, 34–5, 62, 65, 74, 289–90, 300, 332, 497, 503, 504; river, 248–9, 292, 338, 651, 683–4; seasonal, 396–7, 582, 658; snake, 244–5 & n., 392, 582, 673, 705; storm at sea, 582; subconscious as source of imagery, 64–5; sun, 633 n., 635, 636, 637; tombs and sepulchres, 293–4, 476–8; triumph, 717–18, 720–1, 722; Wandering Jew, 34, 40, 243–7, 678, 679–80; windmill, 296; youth, 295, 348, 461
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE: POETICAL WORKS (listed chronologically, in approximate order of composition. Works published individually printed in italics).
1800
‘A cat in distress’, 17–18
1810
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (with Elizabeth
Shelley), 33–5, 49
‘The Irishman’s Song’, 35
‘Ghasta, or the Avenging Demon!!!’, 33, 34–5
‘The Wandering Jew’ (with Tom Medwin), 31
Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
(with T. J. Hogg), 49, 53, 54
‘Love’s Rose’, 70
1811
A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things (text not known), 51 & n., 54
‘Dares the Lama’, 62
‘Zeineb and Kathema’, 108–9, 636 n.
‘A Tale of Society as It Is: From Facts’, 109
The Devil’s Walk (pub. broadsheet, 1812), 106–7, 149, 158, 476, 532, 554
‘The Crisis’, 107–8
1812
‘To Harriet’, 115
‘To the Republicans of North America’, 118
‘The Voyage’, 133–4
‘To a Balloon laden with Knowledge’, 149–50
‘On Launching some Bottles filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel’, 149
‘On leaving London for Wales’, 176–7
Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem with Notes (pub. privately, 1813), xii, 157, 173, 180, 182, 189, 200–11, 215, 216 n., 222, 223, 230, 232, 257, 261, 280, 305, 307, 309, 325, 326, 357, 366, 368, 369, 377, 381–2 & n., 388, 425, 444, 501, 507, 543, 638, 679, 728; Notes to, 153, 182, 200, 201–2, 204, 205–7, 306, 309, 632; Clark’s pirate edition of, 660–1; and prosecution of, 369 & n.
1813
1814
Fragment: ‘Thy dewy looks sink in my breast’, 227
‘To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin’, 231 1815
‘To Wordsworth’, 274–5, 307
‘Oh! there are spirits of the air’, 25, 288–90
‘A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire’, 293–4, 658
‘Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte’, 290, 307
‘The Daemon of the World’, 307
‘Superstition’, 307
Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude (pub. 1816), 65, 227, 228, 247, 248, 262–3, 289, 299, 300–6, 332, 348, 352, 368, 372, 435, 492, 498, 517, 575, 598, 632, 638, 680; Preface to, 299 & n., 301, 307; and Verse Prologue, 301; publication of, 307–11
1816
‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, 15, 336, 338, 348, 350, 352, 356, 657
Fragment: ‘Home’, 6
Fragment: ‘Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude’, 336 n.
‘Mont Blanc’, 340–1, 492, 494
1817
‘On Fanny Godwin’, 348
‘Death’, 348
‘Marianne’s Dream’, 372
‘To Constantia Singing’, 242 n., 371–2, 733
The Revolt of Islam (pub. 1818, revised version of Laon and Cythna, or The Revolution of the Golden City, pub. 1817), 15, 20, 26, 27, 32, 93, 208 n., 361, 370, 372, 375, 377, 379, 384, 389–91, 392–405, 413, 425, 444, 507, 514, 530, 542, 591, 616, 632, 637, 638, 675, 689, 698; dedication to Mary, 15, 377; Preface to, 380–3, 385, 401, 586, 642; reviews of, 404–5, 543, 568
‘Prince Athanase’, 26–7, 406–7, 435
Rosalind and Helen (pub. 1810), 379–80, 416, 429, 529, 698
‘Ozymandias’, 410–11, 490
1818
‘Passage of the Apennines’, 422
‘Scene from “Tasso”, 425
‘Song from “Tasso”, 425, 705
‘Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills’, 447
‘Julian and Maddalo’, 449–57, 464, 474, 492, 525, 532, 539, 540, 561, 568, 598, 617; Preface to, 450–1, 453, 454
‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’, 463
‘Invocation to Misery’, 464
‘Marenghi’, 464, 617
‘My head is wild with weeping’, 464
1819
‘Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administration’, 476–7, 593
Prometheus Unbound (pub. 1820), 32, 35, 211, 436, 444, 446, 447, 457, 461, 475, 485, 489, 490–508, 509, 516, 525, 532, 539, 540, 544, 568, 583, 604, 608, 614, 632, 635, 636 n., 679, 680, 698, 705, 718; Preface to, 299 n., 489, 493–4, 586, 642; publication of, 509–10 n., 595 & n.
‘To William Shelley’, 520, 658
‘To Mary Shelley’, 520
The Cenci (pub. 1819; 1821), 32, 372 & n., 483, 513, 514–17, 521, 523–5, 526, 530, 539, 540, 544, 545, 568, 580, 600, 608, 641, 649, 698; Preface to, 514, 515; Dedication to Leigh Hunt, 528; Livorno edition, 528; publication and reviews of, 595
The Mask of Anarchy (pub. 1832), 532–9, 539–40, 542, 551, 552, 554, 561, 563, 591, 593, 595, 610, 658, 718, 719
Fragment: ‘Twas the 20th October’, 546 Fragment: ‘. . . And this is my distinction’, 546
‘Ode to the West Wind’, 394, 547–50, 551, 555, 562, 568, 576, 593, 595, 614, 718
‘Peter Bell the Third’, 275, 551–6, 561, 563, 556, 595, 596, 621; Dedication to Tom Moore, 551–2
‘Song to the Men of England’, 593, 594
‘Similes for 2 Political Characters’, 593
‘What Men Gain Fairly’, 593
‘A New National Anthem’, 593
‘Ballad of the Starving Mother’ (‘Young Parson Richards’), 562–4, 576, 593
‘Sonnet: England in 1819’, 569–70, 593
‘On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci’, 260 n., 479, 567
‘Love’s Philosophy’, 568, 583
‘The Indian Serenade’ (‘Song Written for an Indian Air’), 568
‘To Sophia’, 568
‘Buona Notte’ (?1820), 568
‘I fear thy kisses gentle maiden’ (?1820), 568
‘On a Dead Violet’ (?1818), 579
Fragment: ‘Wake the Serpent Not’, 673
1820
‘The Sensitive Plant’, 582, 595
‘A Vision of the Sea’, 582, 595
‘Letter to Maria Gisborne’, 597–8
‘The Cloud’, ix, 599–600
‘To a Skylark’, ix, 599–600
‘The Witch of Atlas’, 436, 507, 517, 604–7, 621, 679
‘Ode to Liberty’, 583, 593, 595, 609, 683, 763
Oedipus Tyrannus; or Swellfoot the Tyrant, 609, 610–11
‘Ode to Naples’, 609, 610
‘Hymn of Apollo’, 611, 612
‘Hymn of Pan’, 611, 612
‘The Question’, 611
‘The Waning Moon’, 611, 612
‘To the Moon’, 611–12
‘The Tower of Famine’, 620–1
1821
‘To Emilia Viviani’, 629
Epipsychidion, 268–9, 358, 435, 436, 517, 627, 631–9, 641, 649, 658, 659, 679, 698, 718, 722; ‘Advertisements’ for, 633–5
‘Ginevra’, 649–50
‘The Boat on the Serchio’, 651–2, 700
‘The Aziola’, 652–3
Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, 310, 520, 655–60, 661, 679; Preface to, 656, 657, 659; Pisan edition of, 656, 659, 675, 698
Hellas (pub. 1822), 677–81, 687, 698, 711; Preface to, 678–9, 681
‘Evening: Ponte al Mare, Pisa’, 683–4
‘To Edward Williams’, 698–700
1822
‘Fragments of an Unfinished Drama’, 704–5
‘Charles I’, 641, 675, 691, 697, 705
‘The Magnetic Lady to her Patient’, 627
‘The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa’, 700–1
‘To Jane: The Invitation’, ix, 701
‘To Jane: The Recollection’, ix, 701
‘Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici’, 726
‘With a Guitar, to Jane’, 726
‘To Jane: The Keen Stars were Twinkling’, 726
‘When the Lamp is Shattered’, ix, 726
‘The Triumph of Life’, 554, 717–24 & n.
Fragment: ‘A Schoolboy lay near a pond in a copse’, 7
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE: PROSE WORKS (listed chronologically, in approximate order of composition. Works published individually printed in italics).
1810
Zastrozzi, a Romance, 3
0, 31–3 & n., 36, 39, 46, 103, 104, 259, 261
1811
St Irvyne, or The Rosicrucian, 31, 39–40, 53–4, 70, 103, 104
The Necessity of Atheism, 48, 49–51, 53, 54, 56, 59, 63, 514
1812
An Address to the Irish People, 106, 117, 119–22, 125
Proposals for an Association of Philanthropists, 126, 129–30, 388, 589
Declaration of Rights, 130, 131, 135, 136, 138–9, 149, 158, 541, 589
Letter to Lord Ellenborough, 154–6, 173
1813
Notes to Queen Mab, 153, 182, 200, 201–2, 204, 205–7, 306, 309, 632
‘On the Vegetable System of Diet’, 213
1814
A Refutation of Deism, 280
‘The Assassins’, 243–7, 249
1815
‘Catalogue of the Phenomenon of Dreams, as Connecting Sleep and Waking’, 295–6
‘On the Science of Mind’, 292–3 & n., 294–5, 303
‘On Life’, 247, 297–8, 299 n., 303
‘On Love’, 247, 299, 301, 303 1816
1817
A Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote through the Kingdom, 364–6, 388, 589
History of a Six Weeks Tour (with Mary Shelley), 249, 341
An Address to the People on the Death of Princess Charlotte, 385–8, 532, 589; facsimile reprint of, 388 & n.
1818
‘A Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks Relative to the Subject of Love’, (Preface to The Banquet, see TRANSLATIONS), 430, 431, 432–6, 478 n., 642
‘The Colosseum’, 459, 460
1819
‘Notes on Sculptures in Rome and Florence’ (–1820), 15, 565–8, 643, 679