Adonais, 130, 143;
Shelley’s own criticism of, 144, 153, 180, 186;
quotations from, 145-151
Address to the Irish People, 59;
purpose of, 60, 61;
quotations from, 61
Age of Reason (Paine’s), 66
Alastor, 84;
Shelley’s first serious poem, 85;
its autobiographical value, 86;
quotations from, 87, 153;
self-portraiture in, 98;
last lines quoted, 187-188
Anamnesis, doctrine of, its stronghold upon Shelley’s imagination, 27-28
Ancient Mariner, The, allusion to, 183
Ariosto, Shelley’s first acquaintance with, 72, 111, 112
Aristotle, 29
Assassins, The, 83
Bacon, 151
Bagni di Lucca, 103, 105
Ballantyne, Messrs. (publishers), 19
Bath, Harriet Shelley at, 80, 82, 192, 193
Baxter, Mr. W. T., 194
Berkeley, 117
Bernardo (in The Cenci), 127
Bethel, Mr., Shelley’s tutor at Eton, 12
Bisham, beech-groves of, 95
Bishopsgate Heath, 85
Blake, William (artist), 126
Boccaccio, Shelley’s remarks on, 111
Boinville, Mrs., 76 et seq., 189, 191
Boscombe, 180
Bracknell (in Berkshire), 76, 77
Brentford, 8
Browne, Miss Felicia (afterwards Mrs. Hemans), 34
Brunnen (on Lake Lucerne), 83
Buffon (zoologist), 52
Byron, Lord, 26;
joins Shelley at Geneva, 88;
accident off rocks of Meillerie, 89;
his description of Shelley, 109, 131, 157, 161, 162, 164;
visited by Shelley, 166
Calderon, 112;
Shelley’s translations from, 113, 164
Campbell, Thomas, 19, 130
Caracalla, Baths of, 95, 104, 118
Castlereagh, Lord, 58
Catholic Emancipation, 58, 60, 62
Cenci, The, 74, 95, 120, 121, 126 et seq., 182, 186
Chamouni, 90
Clairmont, Charles, 76, 85
Clairmont, Claire, 76, 83, 88, 103, 157, 194 et seq.
Clapham Common, 45
Clifton, 85
Coleridge, 55, 117, 183
Dante, 111, 113, 138
Declaration of Rights, 64 et seq.
Defence of Poetry, 112, 113, 117, 137, 186;
quotation from, 114-116
De Quincey, 56
Don Juan (Shelley’s boat), 167
Eaton, D. J. (printer), 66
Edinburgh, 51-53, 76
Edinburgh Journal, 19
Edwards, Mr. (Shelley’s first tutor), 6
Eldon, Lord, 81, 93, 130, 193
Epipsychidion, 86, 136, 138, 141 et seq., 158;
quotations from, 139-140
Essay on a Future State, 117, 152
Essay on Christianity, 100, 117
Essay on the Punishment of Death, 117
Este, 95, 107
Eton, 12 et seq.
Fenning, Mrs., 46
Field Place, 3, 6 et seq., 14, 17, 37, 47, 77
Florence, 95, 108, 119, 130
France, 83, 90
Frankenstein (Mrs. Shelley’s story), 90
Fraser’s Magazine, 19, 91 note, 92 note
Garnett, Mr. Richard, 80 note, 81, 83, 121, 130 note, 143, 169, 186 note
Gebir (Landor’s), 33
Geneva, 88;
Lake of, 89
Gisborne, Mr., 112, 121, 136
Gisborne, Mrs., 110, 112, 119
Godwin, Mary, 76, 79 et seq., 85, 88;
marriage with Shelley, 93, 190 et seq.
Godwin, William, 21, 49 note, 56 et seq., 67, 76, 77, 85 note, 93, 107, 110, 191, 194, 195
Goodall, Dr., 12
Great Marlow, 92
Greystoke, 56
Grove, Harriet, 18, 20, 21, 47
Grove, Mr. C. H. (Shelley’s cousin), 51
Guiccioli, Countess, 157
Hellas, 154;
quotation from, 156-157
Hemans, Mrs. See Browne, Miss F.
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (Mrs. Shelley’s), 84
Hitchener, Miss Eliza, 47, 65
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 7, 9, 14-16, 21, 22;
his description of Shelley at Oxford, 23 et seq., 33, 37, 43 et seq., 67, 68, 71 et seq., 82, 85, 100, 108, 131, 161, 186 note, 187, 193
Homer, 74, 112;
Shelley’s translations from, 113
Hookham, Mr. T., 71, 192
Horsham, 3, 17, 20, 56
Hume, 27, 35
Hunt, Leigh, 34, 80 note, 92, 100 et seq., 109, 121, 128, 136, 157, 176, 179, 180, 187
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 16, 86, 87, 123
Imlay, Fanny, 76, 77, 107
Invocation to Night, the, quotation from, 159-160
Ireland, Shelley in, 58, 59, 63, 64
Italy, 103, 109, 110, 169
Julian and Maddalo, quotations from, 105-106, 132
Kant, 68, 117
Keats, 100, 130, 143, 145, 146;
description of his resting-place by Shelley, 148-149
Keswick, 55, 56, 58
Laon and Cythna, 8, 9, 17, 90, 95;
present title, The Revolt of Islam, 97, 98, 103, 122
Leghorn, 74, 95, 119, 131, 176 et seq.
Lerici, 131, 154, 168, 177
Letters, extracts from Shelley’s, 48, 50, 54 et seq., 65, 69, 78, 104, 110, 112, 116, 118, 128, 129, 130, 135-136, 141, 143, 159
Letter to Lord Ellenborough, 66, 67
Letter to Maria Gisborne, 15, 132;
quotation from, 133-134
Lewis, Monk, 19, Shelley, Harriet, 52, 59, 60, 64, 65, 72, 76, 78;
deserted by Shelley, 79, 80, 81;
commits suicide, 82, 190, 197
Shelley, Hellen, 3, 6,

45
Shelley, Ianthe Eliza, 75
Shelley, John, 3
Shelley, Lady, 66 note, 81, 83, 180, 186 note, 191
Shelley, Margaret, 3
Shelley, Mary, 79, 111, 112, 154, 158
Shelley, Mr., 53
Shelley, Mrs. (second wife), 12, 13, 73, 74, 84, 86, 95, 100, 102, 108-110, 117, 118, 132, 159, 161, 180, 196
Shelley, Miss, 14, 19
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 2;
birth of, 3;
position, 4, 5;
relations with father, 6;
sent to Sion House, Brentford, 8;
subject to sleep-walking, 8;
distaste for school games, 8;
goes to Eton (1804), 12;
life there, 12-13, 15;
experiments in chemistry and electricity, 14;
his taste for science, 14-15;
farewell supper at Eton, 16;
attachment to Harriet Grove, 18;
yearns for fame and publicity, 19;
finishes Zastrozzi, 19;
his literary productions, 19-21;
enters University College, Oxford, as Leicester Scholar (1810), 21;
friendship with Hogg, 22-33;
genesis of Posthumous Fragments, 34;
correspondence with distinguished persons, 34;
his favourite authors, 35;
antagonistic to Christianity, 35;
publication of The Necessity of Atheism, 35;
his expulsion from Oxford with Hogg, 36, 37, 38;
his atheistical opinions, 39, 40;
settles with Hogg in London, 43;
his contempt for Paley’s Evidences, 44;
quarrels with his father, 44;
his poverty, 45;
helped by his sisters, 45;
visits his sisters at Clapham School, meets Harriet Westbrook, 45;
pays her frequent visits, 46;
revisits his old home, 47;
receives allowance of £200 a year, 47;
elopement and marriage with Harriet, 51;
life in George Street, Edinburgh, 52;
removes to York and resides with Hogg, 53;
arrival of Harriet’s sister Eliza, 53;
leaves York, 55;
goes to Keswick, 55;
visits Duke of Norfolk, 55;
his friendship with Godwin, 58;
sets sail for Ireland, 59;
his Address to Irish People distributed, 59;
makes his debut as an orator, leaves Ireland, 64;
corresponds with Eliza Hitchener, 65;
settles at Nantgwilt, 66;
his Letter to Lord Ellenborough, 67;
goes to Tanyrallt, 68;
sudden flight from Tanyrallt, 70;
subject to hallucinations, 70, 71;
poverty, 71;
goes to London and takes rooms in Half-Moon Street, 72;
habits of his household, 72-73;
personal details, 73-75;
friendship with Mrs. Boinville and the Godwins, 76;
love for Mary Godwin, 79-80;
remarried to Harriet, 80;
his separation from Harriet, 80;
leaves England with Mary, 83;
return to England, 84;
walks London Hospital, 84;
commences poem of Alastor, 85;
birth of William Shelley, 88;
second journey to Switzerland, 88;
joined by Byron, 88;
makes tour to Lake Geneva with Byron, 89;
excursion to Chamouni, 90;
hallucinations, 91;
returns to England and lives at Great Marlow, 91-92;
hears of Harriet’s death, 92;
friendship with Leigh Hunt, 92-93;
Chancery suit re Harriet’s children, 93;
works steadily at Laon and Cythna, 95;
meets Keats and the brothers Smith at Leigh Hunt’s house, 100;
his daily routine described, 100;
leaves England for Italy, 103;
pays visit to Lord Byron, 105;
improved health, 108;
companionship with Byron, 109;
his ideas on Italian poets, 111;
begins to study Spanish, 112;
composes Defence of Poetry, 113;
settles in Rome, 118;
loss of son William, 118;
removes to near Leghorn, 119;
begins and finishes The Cenci, 119;
removes to Florence, 119;
birth of Sir P. Florence Shelley, 119;
attitude towards his critics, 130;
removes to Pisa, 131;
his high ideal of verse composition, 137;
visits the Contessina Emilia Viviani, 138;
sympathy for her, 138;
his criticisms, 144;
at work upon Hellas, 154;
visits Byron at Ravenna, 157;
his affection for Jane Williams, 159;
first acquaintance with Trelawny at Pisa, 161;
accident, 165;
his daily routine, 165;
daily visit to Byron, 166;
nautical affairs, 166-167;
takes a home (Villa Magni) at Spezia, 168-169;
at Pisa with Leigh Hunt, 176;
return voyage, 177;
storm, loss of Shelley’s boat, 177;
discovery of bodies, 178;
cremation, 179-180;
burial at Rome, 180;
review of life and work, 182;
his genius, 183-186;
portrait of, 186-187
Attachment to his sisters, 6;
his love of games, 6, 7;
sensitiveness, 11;
powers of memory, 15;
personality, 25;
his voice, 25;
his moral character, 32-33;
love for mankind, 40;
his faith, 41;
his creed, 41-42;
remorse, 92;
his charity, 101, 119;
self-denial, 102;
sensibility to art, 104;
his melancholy, 107;
his self-criticism, 128;
his thoughts of death, 151-152, 154;
his mental activity, 162;
the tranquillity in his life, 169;
his nicknames, 166;
nervousness, 175;
somnambulism, 175
Life of, by Professor Dowden, v
Shelley, Sir Percy Florence, 3, 119
Shelley, Timothy, 3, 5, 6, 44
Shelley, William, 88, 118, 178
Sidney, Philip Charles, 4
Sion House (Shelley’s school), 6, 8, 12, 14, 18
Sophocles, 1, 165, 178
Southey, Shelley’s favourite poet whilst at Sion House, 19, 55, 196
Speculations on Metaphysics, 91, 117
St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 21
Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples, quotation from, 153-154
Stockdale, Mr. J. J. (publisher), 19, 20
Swellfoot the Tyrant, 120
Taafe, Mr., 164
Tasso, 72, 111, 137
To his Genius

THE END.

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.

Footnotes:

[1] Forman’s edition, vol. iv. p. 115.

[2] See Medwin, vol. i. p. 68.

[3] He told Trelawny that he had been attracted to Shelley simply by his “rare talents as a scholar;” and Trelawny has recorded his opinion that Hogg’s portrait of their friend was faithful, in spite of a total want of sympathy with his poetic genius. This testimony is extremely valuable.

[4] It is probable that he saw her for the first time in January, 1811.

[5] See Shelley’s third letter to Godwin (Hogg, ii. p. 63) for another defence of his conduct. “We agreed,” &c.

[6] See Dowden’s Life of Shelley, vol. i. pp. 190-194.

[7] McCarthy, p. 255.

[8] It was published in Dublin. See reprint in McCarthy, p. 179.

[9] Reprinted in McCarthy, p. 324.

[10] Reprinted in Lady Shelley’s Memorials, p. 29.

[11] This and the next four pages have to be rewritten since the appearance of Professor Dowden’s Life. See Appendix.

[12] Leigh Hunt, Autob. p. 236, and Medwin, however, both assert that it was by mutual consent. The whole question must be studied in Peacock and in Garnett, Relics of Shelley, p. 147.

[13] See Letter to Godwin in Shelley Memorials, p. 78.

[14] Fraser’s Magazine, Jan., 1860, p. 98.

[15] Forman, iii. 148.

[16] Fraser, Jan., 1860, p. 102.

[17] How many copies were put in circulation is not known. There must certainly have been many more than the traditional three; for when I was a boy at Harrow, I picked up two uncut copies in boards at a Bristol bookshop, for the price of 2s. 6d. a piece.

[18] See Note on Poems of 1819, and compare the lyric “The billows on the beach.”

[19] Medwin’s Life of Shelley, vol. i. 324. His date, 1814, appears from the context to be a misprint.

[20] Note on the Revolt of Islam.

[21] Letter from Florence, Nov., 1819.

[22] See Letter to Ollier, Jan. 20, 1820, Shelley Memorials, p. 135.

[23] See Mrs. Shelley’s note on the Revolt of Islam, and the whole Preface to the Prose Works.

[24] Note on Prometheus.

[25] Note on Revolt of Islam.

[26] Forman, vol. ii. p. 181.

[27] Ibid. p. 231.

[28] Shelley Memorials, p. 121. Garnett’s Relics of Shelley, pp. 49, 190. Collected Letters, p. 147, in Moxon’s Edition of Works in one vol. 1840.

[29] See Medwin, vol. ii. p. 172, for Shelley’s comment on the difficulty of the poet’s art.

[30] Forman, iv. p. 95.

[31] See the Letter to Leigh Hunt, Pisa, Aug. 26, 1821.

[32] “The Serpent in shut out from Paradise.”

[33] Vol. iv. p. 89.

[34] See Lady Shelley v. Hogg; Trelawny v. the Shelley family; Peacock v. Lady Shelley; Garnett v. Peacock; Garnett v. Trelawny; McCarthy v. Hogg, &c., &c.

[35] This poem may be read in full in Professor Dowden’s Life, vol. i. p. 413.

[36] Vol. i. p. 429.

[37] Vol. ii. p. 65.

[38] These three documents will be found in vol. ii. p. 98; vol. i. pp. 424, 425.

[39] Mr. Dowden omits the second sentence in his quotation. Vol. i. p. 426.

[40] Vol. ii. p. 88.

[41] See Mr. Dowden’s own critique of this witness in Appendix B. to vol. ii. Compare vol. i. p. 440.

[42] Vol. i. p. 428.

[43] Vol. i. p. 415.

[44] Vol. i. p. 465.

[45] Vol. i. pp. 436-438.