Shelley: The Pursuit (157 page)

22 Donald H. Reiman:
Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Twayne’s English Authors Series, updated edition, 1990. This survey also contains details of the continuing publication of
Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822
running to 12 volumes from the Pforzheimer Library manuscripts; and the photofacsimile editions of Shelley’s manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, by Garland Publishing Inc., New York.

23 William St. Clair:
The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family
, Faber, 1989

24 Michael H. Scrivener:
Radical Shelley
, Princeton University Press, 1982

25 Stuart Sperry:
Shelley’s Major Verse
, Harvard University Press, 1988

26 Claire Tomalin:
Shelley and his World
, Thames and Hudson, 1980

27 Earl R. Wasserman:
Shelley: A Critical Reading
, John Hopkins University Press, 1971

28 Timothy Webb:
The Violet in the Crucible: Shelley and Translation
, Oxford, 1976;
Shelley: A Voice Not Understood
, Manchester University Press, 1977; (ed)
Shelley: Selected Poems
, Everyman’s Library, 1977

29 Art Young:
Shelley and Nonviolence
, Mouton, The Hague, 1975

References

Chapter 1, A Fire-Raiser

1
. Field Place and the ponds still remain, though there has been considerable alteration in the layout of the gardens, and parts of the house have been rebuilt. Field Place is described in Edward Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, 2 vols, 1866, 1, pp. 5–7; also in Roger Ingpen,
Shelley in England: New Facts and Letters from the Shelley-Whitton Papers
, 1917, pp. 22–7. Both these works are important sources of detailed information and documents for the first twenty-five years of Shelley’s life (while Dowden’s second volume follows Shelley into Italy).

The Sussex nurse and the Great Tortoise legend are mentioned in Hellen Shelley’s letters to Jane Williams; while the ‘Great Old Snake’ is described in Thomas Jefferson Hogg,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, 2 vols, 1858, the edition used here and throughout being that edited by Humbert Wolfe, 2 vols, 1933, 1. Reference to the ‘Great Old Snake’ is on p. 22.

2
. Edmund Blunden,
Shelley: A Life Story
, 1946, p. 23.

3
. Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 5.

4
. Shelley acidly refers to the picture of Christ in letters to Hogg, winter 1810–11; the ‘bad picture of the Eruption of Vesuvius’ is mentioned in Thomas Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, 1847, edited by H. B. Forman, 1913, p. 12.

5
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 23.

6
. ibid., p. 22.

7
. Walter Edwin Peck,
Shelley: His Life and Work
, 2 vols, 1927, I, p. 30.

8
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, I, p. 28.

9
. ibid., p. 25.

10
. ibid., p. 22.

11
. ibid., pp. 22–3.

12
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 16.

13
. ibid., p. 17.

14
. ibid.

15
. ibid., p. 20.

16
. ibid., p. 24.

17
. ibid., p. 20.

18
. Sir John Rennie, quoted in Kenneth Neill Cameron,
The Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical
, 1951, p. 7.

19
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 27.

20
.
Poetical Works
, p. 535.

21
. Transcribed from Shelley’s working notebook, Bixby-Huntington Notebook II, in Neville Rogers,
Shelley at Work
, 1967, Appendix III, pp. 335–6.

22
. Cameron, op. cit., p. 291, n. 1. It is interesting that Timothy first applied to the Royal College of Heralds for a pedigree in 1806. The somewhat spurious genealogy is discussed by Ingpen, op. cit., pp. 1–18.

23
. ibid. See also John Cordy Jeaffreson,
The Real Shelley
, 2 vols, 1885, I, p. 21.

24
. Ingpen, op. cit., p. 18.

25
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 13.

26
. Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 5.

27
. Leigh Hunt,
Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries
, 1828, vol. I, pp. 201–305.

28
. Sir John Rennie, quoted in Cameron, op. cit., p. 7.

29
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 23.

30
. ibid., p. 16.

31
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. c. 4 f24. (
c
. 1822), which shows sketches of male and female faces in profile. ‘An Essay on Friendship’,
Prose
, p. 338.

32
. ‘Notes on Sculptures in Rome and Florence’ (1819–20),
Prose
, pp. 347–8.

33
. ‘Dedication to the Revolt of Islam’, stanzas 3–4;
Poetical Works
, pp. 37–8. See also ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’, stanzas 5–6;
Poetical Works
, p. 531.

34
. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 28–9.

35
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 53.

36
. The solar microscope is first mentioned in connection with Walker by Medwin, pp. 28–9; and several times subsequently by Hogg, pp. 55, 152–3, etc. Hogg says that Shelley’s ‘first care’ on entering new lodgings was to find a southern-facing window and cut a hole in the shutter for the microscope aperture.

37
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 23.

38
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 88.

39
. Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 31, n. 1, who records the experiment at Eton; but Medwin, op cit., p. 72, locates the ‘electrical kite’ at Field Place, ‘an idea borrowed from Franklin’. Perhaps there was more than one kite, and more than one cat.

40
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 29.
Poetical Works
, pp. 838–9.

41
.
Letters
, I, No. 1, p. 1.

42
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 23.

43
.
Letters
, I, No. 2, p. 1.

44
. W.H. Merle, article in
The Athenaeum
, 1848; reprinted in Edmund Blunden,
Shelley and Keats as they Struck their Contemporaries
, 1925.

45
. Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley’, first printed as three articles in
Fraser’s Magazine
, June 1858, January 1860 and March 1862. Howard Mills (ed.),
Peacock: Memoirs, Essays and Reviews
, 1970, p. 24.

46
.
The Revolt of Islam
, Canto V, stanzas 8–9;
Poetical Works
, p. 81.

47
. Mary Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 8 April 1825:
Mary
, I, No. 225, p. 317.

48
. Mary’s ‘Notes’,
Poetical Works
, p. 835.

49
. Mary Shelley,
Lodore
, 1835, pp. 72–7.

50
. ibid., pp. 77–8.

51
. Charles Grove to Hellen Shelley, 16 February 1857. Ingpen, op. cit., pp. 49–50. Grove recalls this as occurring when Shelley was aged 12.

52
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 24.

53
. ibid., pp. 23–4.

54
. The Reverend Robert Leslie quoted in Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 26 n. 1.

55
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 24.

56
. ibid.

57
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 34.

58
. Walter Halliday to Hellen Shelley, 27 February 1857. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 41.

59
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 36.

60
. Peacock, op. cit., p. 26.

61
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 36.

62
. ‘Oh! There are spirits of the air’,
Poetical Works
, p. 525.

63
.
Dictionary of National Biography
, Sidney Lee (ed.), 1893, Vol. XXXIII, pp. 272–3.

64
. Jean Overton Fuller,
Shelley
, 1968, p. 22.

65
. Cameron, op. cit., p. 13.

66
.
Letters
, I, No. 30, p. 28, n. 13.

67
. ‘Prince Athanase’,
Poetical Works
, p. 163.

68
.
The Revolt of Islam
, Canto IV, stanzas 12–14;
Poetical Works
, pp. 74–5.

69
. Mary Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, pp. 35–6.

70
.
Letters
, I, No. 4, p. 3.

71
. ibid., No. 6, p. 4.

72
. Hellen Shelley in Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 27.

73
. Charles Grove to Hellen Shelley. Ingpen, op. cit., p. 94.

74
. Harriet Grove’s Diary for 1810. Printed in Newman Ivey White,
Shelley
, 2 vols, 1940; I, Chapter 4.

75
.
Letters
, I, No. 11, p. 11.

76
. ibid., no. 15, p. 14.

77
. Dr Eustace Chesser,
Shelley & Zastrozzi; Self-Revelation of a Neurotic
, 1965, p. 32. The study also reprints the entire text.

78
. ibid.,
Zastrozzi
, Chapter 17, pp. 156–9.

79
. ibid., Chapter 15, p. 145.

80
.
Letters
, I, No. 10, p. 10.

81
. ibid., No. 35, p. 35.

82
. ‘Ghasta; or, the Avenging Demon!!!’
Poetical Works
, p. 854.

83
. ‘The Irishman’s Song’,
Poetical Works
, p. 849.

84
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 13.

85
. Henry Slatter to Robert Montgomery, 18 December 1833. Cameron, p. 2.

Chapter 2, Oxford: 1810–11

1
.
The Clarendon Guide to Oxford
, A.R. Woolley, OUP, 1963.

2
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 55.

3
. ibid., p. 68.

4
. ibid., p. 70.

5
. ibid., p. 59.

6
.
Letters
, I, No. 22, p. 19.

7
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 67.

8
. Taylor’s cumulative account, given in Ingpen,
Shelley in England
, p. 178.

9
. Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, p. 51.

10
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 32.

11
. ibid., p. 53.

12
. ibid., pp. 51–3.

13
. ibid., p. 61.

14
. ibid., p. 85.

15
. Notably
Letters
I, No. 30 and No. 45.

16
. Cameron,
The Young Shelley, Genesis of a Radical
, p. 45ff.

17
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 72.

18
. ibid., p. 80.

19
.
Letters
, I, No. 64, p. 75.

20
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 56.

21
.
Letters
, I, No. 30, p. 26, n. 3.

22
. ibid., pp. 26–7.

23
. ibid., No. 32, p. 32.

24
. ibid., No. 30, pp. 27–8.

25
. ibid., No. 35, p. 36.

26
. ibid., No. 36, p. 39.