By M. Garrett
This accomplished consultant to the poems, prose, biography, principles and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley beneficial properties entries on the entire significant poems and prose works (including notion, composition and publication), Shelley's politics, relationships and travels, his illustration in novels, drama, movie and pictures, and his serious reception.
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Poor Shelley Caroline, Queen 29 always was, and is, a kind of ghastly object; colourless, pallid, tuneless, without health or warmth of vigour ... with fine affections and aspirations, gone all such a road: – a man infinitely too weak for that solitary scaling of the Alps which he undertook in spite of all the world’ (Carlyle [1997], p. 397). Caroline, Queen (1768–1821) Caroline of Brunswick, estranged wife of *George IV. His and his ministers’ campaign to discredit her (so that he could divorce her), and hers to claim her rights as queen, were a rallying-point for reformist opposition in 1820–1.
41). Burns, Robert (1759–96) Scottish poet, also a farmer and excise officer. In PB3 Nature contrasts Burns’s knowledge of her joy (325–7) with Peter’s/*Wordsworth’s coldness, his never daring to ‘uplift / The closest, all-concealing tunic’ (316–17). Byron, Allegra 25 Byron, Allegra see Clairmont, Claire Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824) Poet. He and Shelley met by Lake Léman on 27 May 1816 and came to know each other well over the next three months. It was probably at this time that Shelley had most influence over Byron, allegedly ‘dosing’ him on ‘Wordsworth physic’ (Medwin [1966], p.
There is some dispute as to whether Shelley should be seen, in modern terms, as more atheist or agnostic. (See Prose 323–5 and Wroe [2007], pp. ) *Shaw says that Shelley was aware of ‘the omnipresence of a living force’ but ‘never condescended to beg off being an Atheist by calling this omnipresent energy God, or even Pan’ (Shaw [1931], p. 250). Leader and O’Neill xx–xxi point to the god-like nature of Intellectual Beauty in ‘Hymn’ and the way in which in Shelley’s work more generally ‘a God-shaped hole’ seems to be filled by Necessity, the One, or Power.
