The author of this dissertation was born in Glassburn, Nova Scotia, November 7, 1881. He attended the public school there until the fall of 1896, when he entered St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N. S. In November, 1900, he entered the Propaganda College, Rome, and was ordained a priest in 1904. The years 1908 and 1909 he devoted largely to the study of English literature, and in July, 1910, passed the preliminary post-graduate examinations in English at St. Francis Xavier University. In October of the same year he entered the Catholic University of America, where he pursued studies in English under Professors Lennox and Hemelt; in sociology under Dr. Kerby, and in economics under Dr. O’Hara. To these gentlemen and to the Rt. Rev. Bishop Shahan for kindly encouragement he wishes to acknowledge a debt of gratitude.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A dissertation submitted to the Catholic University of America in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, June, 1912.

[2] Trent, The Authority of Criticism and Other Essays.

[3] English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, Chap. X.

[4] Cf. Halevy, La Resolution et la Doctrine de L’Utilite.

[5] Queen Mab, Canto IV.

[6] Samuel Butler, Hudibras.

[7] Open Court.

[8] Ingpen, Letter Jan. 26, 1812.

[9] The Real Shelley, Vol. I, p. 97.

[10] Hogg: Life of Shelley, p. 136.

[11] Oxford Studies (1855), quoted in Koszul, p. 59.

[12] Rights of Woman, Ch. 12, p. 174.

[13] Hogg, Life of Shelley, p. 71.

[14] “Il est vrai que Shelley courait un peu a l’amour de Harriet comme MacBeth courait au meurtre de Duncan. ‘Ce qu’il faisait ressemblait plutot a un coup de volonte qu’ a un elan de passion.”—La Jeunesse de Shelley, Koszul, p. 86.

[15] Ingpen, Vol. I, p. 155.

[16] Hogg, Vol. II, p. 52.

[17] Wordsworth uses this expression in the conclusion of The Prelude.

[18] Cf. The Excursion, Book VIII.

[19] Leslie Stephen: English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Vol. II.

[20] Koszul, p. 340.

[21] Cf. Social England, Trail and Mann, p. 825, also The Political History of England, by Broderick and Fotheringham, p. 340.

[22] Social England, Trail and Mann, p. 665.

[23] Thackeray, The Four Georges.

[24] The French Revolution and English Literature, p. 76.

[25] Cf. Hancock. French Revolution and English Poets, p. 56.

[26] Chapter XI. p. 66.

[27] Canto VI. p. 23.

[28] missing note

[29] Queen Mab.

[30] The Enquirer, p. 174.

[31] Letter, Oct. 10, 1811. Ingpen, p. 142.

[32] The Real Shelley, Vol. II, p. 217.

[33] Quoted in Shelley und die frauen, Maurer.

[34] Hogg’s Life, p. 447.

[35] The Naires, book 8, p. 130.

[36] Book VI, p. 239.

[37] P. 797.

[38] Book XI cf. Chardius Travels in Persia.

[39] Persian Letters. Letter 55.

[40] Naires, Book X, p. 65.

[41] Book X, p. 86.

[42] The Naires, Book VIII, p. 108.

[43] Notes to Queen Mab.

[44] Ibid.

[45] Dowden: Life of Shelley, Vol. I, p. 472.

[46] The Revolt of Islam. Canto XI, st. 15.

[47] Page 74.

[48] Canto II, st. 36.

[49] Canto IV, st. 20.

[50] Canto IV, st. 34.

[51] Canto VI, st. 19.

[52] Canto XII, 18.

[53] Canto VIII, st. 12.

[54] “Toutes les sources de “Laon and Cythna” n’ont pas ete explorÉes: celles qui l’ont ete paraissent peu sÛres et peu importantes: la fÊte de la FÉdÉration du V e chant rappelle son modÈle francais, et l’ideale peinture des Ruines de Volney; la grotte on Cythna est enchaÎnÉe—comme la caverne d’Asia dans PromÉthÉe peut Être due À un souvenir de The Cave of Fancy de Mary Wollstonecraft; lÉs echos de Byron, et certains prÉtendent de l’Imagination de notre Delille semblent peu discernables.”—Koszul, La Jeunesse de Shelley, 1910, p. 366.

[55] Hogg’s Life of Shelley, ed. 1906, p. 233.

[56] The Revolt, Canto II, st. 33.

[57] Notes to Queen Mab.

[58] P. 210.

[59] P. 273.

[60] Cf. Letter to Godwin, Jan. 16, 1812.

[61] Preface to The Revolt of Islam.

[62] Maurer: Shelley und die frauen, p. 74.

[63] Howell’s Letters, Book I, sect. 6, let. XV.

[64] To E. Hitchener, Nov. 12, 1811.

[65] J. S. Harrison, Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, p. 104.

[66] Epipsychidion, Dowden, p. 408.

[67] Platonism in English Poetry, p. 115.

[68] Essay on Love.

[69] Letter to Miss Hitchener.

[70] Epipsychidion.

[71] Dowden’s Life, Vol. II, p. 373.

[72] Life of Shelley, Vol. II, p. 378.

[73] Vindication of the Rights of Women, ch. II, p. 38.

[74] P. 128.

[75] The Revolt of Islam, Canto II, st. 36.

[76] Vindication of the Rights of Women, ch. XI.

[77] The Revolt of Islam, Canto VIII, st. 13.

[78] Miss Hitchener, Dec. 11, 1811.

[79] P. 200, Memoirs.

[80] P. 281.

[81] Canto IX, st. 34.

[82] Ingpen, p. 659.

[83] Book I, Ch. V, p. 87.

[84] Queen Mab, Canto III.

[85] Queen Mab, III, p. 9.

[86] Political Justice, IV, 1.

[87] Canto V.

[88] Political Justice, I, 273.

[89] Ibid., p. 259.

[90] Defense of Poetry.

[91] Ibid.

[92] Political Justice, Book II, Chap. II, p. 126.

[93] Ibid., I, p. 126.

[94] Enquirer, p. 298.

[95] Prom. Unbound, III, 4, 167.

[96] Queen Mab.

[97] Decl. of Rights, art. 15.

[98] Political Justice, I, p. 221.

[99] Letter to Elizabeth Hitchener, July 26, 1811.

[100] Notes to Queen Mab.

[101] Shelley Memorials, Essay on Christianity, p. 297.

[102] Book VIII, ch. 2.

[103] Queen Mab, V.

[104] Essay on Christianity, p. 302.

[105] The Enquirer, Part II, essay 2; also Political Justice, Book VIII, ch. 2.

[106] Political Enquirer, p. 177.

[107] Notes to Queen Mab.

[108] V. D. Scudder: Introduction to Prometheus Unbound.

[109] Ibid.

[110] Letter of Prof. Dowden to the author.

[111] Political Justice, IV, 2.

[112] Flint: Philosophy of History, p. 323.

[113] Political Justice, Book 8, 9.

[114] Queen Mab.

[115] Cf. Volney, Les Ruines, “Dieu apres avoir passe une eternite sans rien faire prit enfin le dessin de produire le monde.”

[116] Essay on Christianity, p. 291.

[117] Letter to Horace Smith, April 11, 1822.

[118] Letter to Lord Ellenborough, June, 1812.

[119] Queen Mab.

[120] Essay on Christianity. Shelley Memorials, p. 275.

[121] Recollections by Trelawny, p. 40.

[122] Letter to E. Hitchener, Jan. 2, 1812.

[123] Koszul: La Jeunesse de Shelley, p. 132.

[124] Letter to E. Hitchener, Oct. 26, 1811.

[125] Grammar of Assent, p. 264.

[126] Leslie Stephen: The Utilitarians, Vol. III, p. 496.

[127] Ingpen, p. 90.

[128] Essay on Life.

[129] Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. II.

[130] “Doch ist vielleicht nichts fÜr die Gestaltung seines eigenartigen Genius und fÜr die Richtung seiner poetischen Weltauschauung von so ma geliender bedeutung gewesen, wie die Philosophie Spinoza’s.”

[131] Dowden’s Life, Vol. I, p. 330.

[132] Ethics, II.

[133] Notes to Queen Mab.

[134] Essay on Life, ed. by Mrs. Shelley, Vol. I, p. 226.

[135] P. 17, Academical Questions.

[136] Ingpen, Vol. I, p. 327.

[137] Notes to Queen Mab.

[138] Queen Mab.

[139] Academical Questions, p. 241.

[140] Ibid., p. 258.

[141] Queen Mab, IV, p. 15.

[142] Baldwin, J. M.: Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1902.

[143] Ode to Naples, Epode II. B.

[144] Colisseum, III, 6.

[145] Turner: History of Philosophy, p. 483.

[146] Ode to Naples, Epode II, B.

[147] Def. of Poetry, III, 3.

[148] Forman’s ed. Prose Works, Vol. III, p. 219.

[149] Prom. Unbound, Act. II, sc. 3, p. 267.

[150] Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.

[151] Turner, p. 102.

[152] Adonais, st. 54.

[153] Hellas.

[154] Cf. Shelley’s Essay on a Future State.

[155] Letter to Eliz. Hitchener, June 25, 1811.

[156] Essay on Life.

[157] Turner: History of Philosophy, p. 110.

[158] Adonais, st. 55.

[159] June 20, 1811.

[160] Political Justice, Book VI. 11.

[161] Queen Mab, Canto VI, p. 24.

[162] Ibid.

[163] Notes to Queen Mab.

[164] Shelley Memorials, Essay on Christianity, p. 283.

[165] Essay on Christianity.

[166] Speculations on Morals, Vol. II, prose works, p. 260.

[167] Shelley Memorials. Essay on Christianity, p. 279.

[168] W. M. Rossetti: Memoir of Shelley, p. 33.

[169] Shelley’s notebook. Printed for W. K. Bixby, St. Louis, 1911.

[170] English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.

[171] P. J. Lennox in the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XII.

[172] T. Arnold; Manual of English Literature, p. 304.

[173] Coleridge: Biographia Literaria, Ch. XIV.

[174] Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

[175] Courthope, Vol. VI, p. 314.

[176] Shelley’s Defence of Poetry, p. 9.

[177] Shelley’s Defence of Poetry, p. 5.

[178] Courthope: History of Poetry, Vol. VI, p. 192.

[179] Riverside Edition, p. 217.

[180] Ibid., p. 239.

[181] Ibid., Book XI, p. 265.

[182] The Prelude, Book XI, p. 272.

[183] Act. V, scene 3.

[184] Essay on Poetry.

[185] The Excursion, Book III, p. 107.

[186] Ibid., p. 108.

[187] Revolt of Islam, Canto XI, st. 22.

[188] The Excursion, verse 15.

[189] L. Winstanley in Englische Studien, V. 34.

[190] Quellen: Vorbilder, Stoffe zu Shelley’s Poetischen Werken.

[191] Jenkins: Handbook of Literature, p. 313.

[192] Dowden’s ed., p. 135.

[193] Dowden’s Life of Shelley, Vol. I, p. 376.

[194] Courthope: History of Poetry. Vol. VI, p. 194.

[195] Essay on Owen.

[196] Reflections, Vol. V.

[197] Letter to Leigh Hunt, May 1, 1820.

[198] Letter to Leigh Hunt, p. 82.

[199] Guido Biagi: Gli ultimi giorni di P. Shelley.

[200] Quoted in Shelley Society Papers, Part I, p. 94.

[201] Wordsworth: Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.

[202] “Tutte le circostanze della vita dello Shelley attestano come in lui la poesia, la visione, l’idealismo fossero, piu che un bisogno dello spirito, il principale elemento costitutive dell esser suo.” G. Chiarini, Ombre e figure.

[203] Advancement of Learning, Book II.

[204] J. S. McKenzie: Social Philosophy. p. 428.

[205] Ibid., p. 42.

[206] Am. Cath. Quarterly. Vol. 28, p. 239.

[207] MacAulay: Essay on the Earl of Chatham.

[208] Carlyle calls the philosophical radicals “paralytic radicals” because their theories lead to inaction.

[209] The Catholic World, Vol. 87, p. 744.