  | PAGE | | Introduction—Nature of Radicalism | 5 | | | Chapter I—Early Influences | 12 | | Lack of sympathetic home training—Eton—disappointment in love—Oxford, conditions there bad—meets cynic Hogg—both publish The Necessity of Atheism, and are expelled—marries Harriet Westbrook—begins correspondence with Godwin—visits Dublin to aid Catholic Emancipation—Conditions of people of England—Caleb Williams—Queen Mab. | | | Chapter II—Views on Marriage and Love | 36 | | Parting from Harriet—views on marriage—influence of Godwin, of Lawrence’s The Empire of the Naires—abuses of marriage in different countries—the Naires a possible source of Rosalind and Helen—flight with Mary Godwin—Brown’s Wieland—The Revolt of Islam—The Missionary an important source of the Revolt—Platonism and his view of love—Epipsychidion—Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of The Rights of Women—Louvet’s Memoirs. | | | Chapter III—Politics | 66 | | Godwin’s Political Justice—every kind of obedience wrong—views on kingcraft—on violence and punishment of death—reform through education—principle of justice—laws—ownership of property—luxuries—vegetarianism—Leigh Hunt—proposal for putting Reform to a vote—Prometheus Unbound—masque of Anarchy—philosophical view of Reform—the perfectibility of man. | | | Chapter IV—Religion and Philosophy | 87 | | His views on Christianity—not an atheist—agnostic—sources of views on belief, Locke, Spinoza, Drummond—God not a creator—Pantheism—God, Love, and Beauty identical—immortality of the soul—idealism—necessity—freedom of the will—good and evil, their origin—virtue equivalent to happiness—disbelief in the doctrine of hell. | | | Chapter V—Radicalism in Contemporary Poetry | 108 | | Wordsworth—the Lyrical Ballads—The Prelude and Excursion—Coleridge. | | | Chapter VI—Conclusion | 125 | | Weakness of the Radical, of Shelley—Strength of the Radical, of Shelley. | | | Bibliography | 139 | | | Biography | 143 |
THE RADICALISM OF SHELLEY AND ITS SOURCES[1] By Daniel J. McDonald, Ph.D.
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