Which seem'd to hold all verse in detestation : The angels had of course enough of song When upon service; and the generation Of ghosts had heard too much in life, not long Before, to profit by a new occasion : The monarch, mute till then, exclaim'd, "What! what! Pje come again? No more-no more of that!" The tumult grew; an universal cough Convulsed the skies, as during a debate. When Castlereagh has been up long enough (Before he was first minister of state, I mean—the slaves hear now) ; some cried "Off, off!" As at a farce; till, grown quite desperate, The bard Saint Peter pray'd to interpose Himself an author) only for his prose. The varlet was not an ill-favor'd knave; A good deal like a vulture in the face, With a hook nose and a hawk's eye, which gave A smart and sharper-looking sort of grace To his whole aspect, which, though rather grave, Was by no means so ugly as his case; But that, indeed, was hopeless as can be, Quite a poetic felony "de se." Then Michael blew his trump, and still'd the noise With one still greater. as is yet the mode On earth besides; except some grumbling voice, Which now and then will make a slight inroad Upon decorous silence, few will twice Lift up their lungs when fairly overcrow'd; And now the bard could plead his own bad cause. With all the attitudes of self-applause. He said (I only give the heads)-he said, He meant no harm in scribbling ; 'twas his way Upon all topics; 'twas, besides, his bread, Of which he butter'd both sides; 'twould delay The hope, the fear, the jealous care, But 'tis not thus--and 't is not here-- nor now, Where glory decks the hero's bier, The sword, the banner, and the field, Awake! (not Greece-she is awake!) Awake, my spirit! Think through whom Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake, Tread those reviving passions down, If thou regrett'st thy youth, why live? Seek out-less often sought than found- At Missolonghi, January 2. 1824. October 29, 1824. ** SHELLEY LIST OF REFERENCES Complete Works, edited by H. Buxton Forman, 8 volumes. Works, edited by R. H. Shepherd, 4 volumes. *Complete Poetical Works, edited by G. E. Woodberry, 4 volumes, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Aldine Poets, 5 volumes, The Macmillan Co. Riverside Edition, 2 volumes, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. * Globe Edition, edited by Edward Dowden, 1 volume, The Macmillan Co. * Cambridge Edition, edited by G. E. Woodberry, I volume, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. BIOGRAPHY SHEL MEDWIN (Thomas), Life of Shelley, 1847. HOGG (T. J.), Life of Shelley, 1858. MIDDLETON (C. S.), Shelley and his Writings, 1858. LEY MEMORIALS, edited by Lady Shelley, 1859. GARNETT (Richard), Relics of Shelley, 1862. ROSSETTI (W. M.), Life of Shelley (prefixed to his edition of Shelley's Works), 1870. SMITH (G. B.), Shelley, A Critical Biography, 1877. ** SYMONDS (J. A.), Shelley (English Men of Letters Series), 1878. JEAFFRESON (J. C.), The Real Shelley, 1885. DoWDEN (Edward), Life of Shelley (The standard biography, but not altogether satisfactory. Lacking both in frankness and sympathy.), 1886. RABBE (Felix), Shelley, sa Vie et ses Oeuvres, 1887. SHARP (William), Shelley (Great Writers Series), 1887. SALT (H. S.), Shelley, A Biographical Study. (See also Mrs. Shelley's Notes to the Poems, Moore's Life of Byron, C. Kegan Paul's William Godwin, his Friends and Contemporaries; etc.) REMINISCENCES AND EARLY CRITICISM HUNT *TRELAWNEY (E. J.), Recollections of Shelley and Byron. (Leigh), Byron and some of his Contemporaries. HUNT (Leigh), Autobiography. MEDWIN (Thomas), Shelley Papers. MITFORD (Mary Russell), Recollections of a Literary Life. DE QUINCEY (T.), Essays on Poets. *PEACOCK (Thomas Love), Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley. LATER CRITICISM * BROWNING (Robert), Complete Works: An Essay on Shelley. BAGENOT (Walter), Literary Studies. * BOURGET (Paul), Études et Portraits. BRANDES (S. M. C.), Shelley und Lord Byron: Zwei litterarische Charakterbilder. CALVERT (G. II.), Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe. DowPEN (Edward), French Revolution and English Literature; Essay VI. |