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Title: Shelley, the man and the poet
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur), 1868-1924
Subjects: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Publisher: London Methuen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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was in him,and he indulged it, at any rate so far as to make versesabout it. I cannot but think that he might have beenbetter employed, even in the interests of his art. In suchpoems he took the line of least resistance, and was nottraining himself for greater tasks. No one else has donethis kind of thing so well, but there is a futility in theidea which betrays itself even in the language. The lasttwo lines would go well with the music of Balfe. It is quite plain that Edward Williams did not takeShelleys passion for Jane seriously. He was only flatteredthat a divine poet should say such pretty things of hiswife, and, no doubt, Jane was flattered too. As for Mary,she must have known there was no real danger; butTrelawny tells us that she was subject to jealousy, anddid not like Shelley to write poems to other women.Trelawny appears to think this unreasonable in her ; butno woman would be pleased if her husband told anotherwoman that he was unhappy at home, even if he told itin verse.
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CHAPTER XIV THE LAST YEAR SHELLEY now saw much of Byron and Byronsfriends. He also made a new friend, who has givenus as vivid and full an account of the last year of hislife as Hogg of his Oxford days. Edward John Trelawny,who was a year younger than Shelley, had already begun tolive a life of adventure. He had read and admired Shelleyspoetry, and had heard from Medwin and Williams thatShelley himself was as remarkable as his works. He cameto Italy, partly to shoot in the Maremma, partly to seeShelley. Having fulfilled his first -purpose, he arrivedat Pisa on January 14, 1822, to accomplish his second.From this time he was constantly in Shelleys society, andbecame his devoted friend. He had his faults, and wecannot trust all that he says. Indeed, Byron called hima liar. In some things he was capricious, but not inhis affection for Shelle)^ It is a great piece of luck forShelleys biographers that Trelawny should, like Hogg,have had a natural gift for writing, and yet should havebeen f

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