EDITED BY

PROFESSOR ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.

LIFE OF SHELLEY.

LIFE

OF

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

BY

WILLIAM SHARP

LONDON

WALTER SCOTT

24 WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW

1887

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Shelley's birth at the Manor of Field Place, August 4, 1792;
his grandfather, Sir Bysshe Shelley; his father, mother,
and sisters; his early childhood; Rev. Mr. Edwards of
Warnham, his first tutor; goes to school at Sion House,
Brentford; his character, temperament, and description of
his personal appearance

CHAPTER II.

Shelley goes to Eton; description of his sufferings, of his per-

sonal pleasures; his friend Dr. Lind; the beginning of

his literary life, "Poems by Victor and Cazire,” “Night-

mare " and "Zastrozzi"; matriculates at Oxford 1810;

friendship with Harriet Grove; "St. Irvyne, or the Rosi-

crucians"; "The Posthumous Fragments of Margaret

Nicholson"; the romance "Leonora "; friendship with

Thomas Jefferson Hogg, and anecdotes connected there-

with; the "Necessity of Atheism"; Hogg and Shelley

expelled from Oxford in 1811

CHAPTER III.

Shelley's engagement with his cousin Harriet Grove broken off

by her parents; Hogg and Shelley take lodgings in Poland

Street; Shelley banished from Field Place, and monetary

supplies stopped; Shelley's "Poetical Essay on the Exist-

ing State of Things"; makes acquaintance with Harriet

Westbrook; description of her and her family; mone-

tary difficulties; elopement with Harriet Westbrook,

marriage, and journey to Edinburgh, where they are

joined by Hogg; correspondence with Miss Hitchener ;

Shelley, Harriet, and Hogg go to York; rupture with

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