Shelley: The Pursuit (190 page)

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

S
HELLEY
, P
ERCY
B
YSSHE
: 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,
181
2),
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,
181
3),
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