Shelley: The Pursuit
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1820
‘A Philosophical View of Reform’ (pub. 1920 sic), 388 n, 569, 581, 583–93, 595, 642
‘Essay on Christianity’, 571, 642
1821
‘On Devils and the Devil’, 245 n., 621, 627, 628, 642, 673
‘A Defence of Poetry’, 586, 642–6, 675, 775; Introduction to, 642–3
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE: TRANSLATIONS (listed chronologically, in approximate order of composition).
1813
Fragment: ‘On Vegetarianism by Plutarch’, 220
1814
1815
‘From the Greek of Moschus’, 307, 308 n. Sonnet: ‘Dante Alighieri to Guido Calvalcanti’, 307–8 & n.
Sonnet: ‘Guido Cavalcanti to Dante Alighieri’, 308
1816
1817
1818
‘The Banquet Translated from Plato’ (‘The Symposium’), 295 n., 305, 430–8, 496, 605, 612, 679, 681
Fragment: ‘Plato’s Ion’ (?1820), 432
Fragment: ‘Plato’s Phaedo’ (?1820), 432
1819
‘The Cyclops. From the Greek of Euripides’, 612
1820
‘Hymn to Mercury. Translated from the Greek of Homer’, 600
‘Mathilda Gathering Flowers. From Dante’s Purgatorio’, 611, 620
1821
‘Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion: From the Greek of Moschus’, 656
‘Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis. From the Greek of Bion’, 656
1822
Fragment: ‘Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus’, 687
‘Scenes from Calderón’s Magico Prodigioso’, 612, 696, 711
‘Scenes from the Faust of Goethe’, 689, 691–4, 731
Shelley, Percy Florence (son of Mary and Shelley), xi, 560, 561, 562, 565, 575, 579, 581, 597, 628, 637, 712, 726, 729; his later education and career, 732
Shelley, Sir Timothy (father), xi, I, II & n., 31, 43, 87, 104, 144, 226, 281, 321, 415, 550, 648, 710; appearance, 2; and character, 2, 57–8, 59, 60; relations with old Bysshe, 2, 18; sends Shelley to Syon House Academy, 3–4; career, 10; his relationship with Shelley, 12, 35–6, 88–9; cautions Shelley against bad influence of Hogg, 45; and debates religious issues, 47–8; encourages Shelley to write poem on Parthenon, 48, 49; and The Necessity of Atheism, 50–1; Shelley’s letter about expulsion from Oxford to, 56–7; and meeting at Miller’s Hotel, 57–8; and quarrel with Shelley, 58–60, 61–3; Shelley returns home, 70; and Hogg’s visit to Field Place, 71, 75; learns of Shelley’s marriage and stops allowance, 81–2; and Shelley’s reproachful letters to, 82–3; makes £200 allowance to Shelley, 109; and Shelley’s conciliatory letter, 109–10; and breaks with Shelley, 110–11; refuses to loan money for Nantgwillt farm, 135–6; and failure of attempts at reconciliation between Shelley and, 211–13, 222; Shelley’s inheritance blocked by, 216, 219, 225; death of Bysshe Shelley and estate settlement, 276, 283–5, 307, 313, 320; Shelley arrested for debt at instance of, 379; Dr Hume’s suit against Shelley and, 648, 649 n.; financial relations between Mary and, 732; and death, 732
Shelley, Timothy (great-grandfather), 9–10
Shelley, William (son of Mary and Shelley), 315, 322, 339, 367, 370, 371, 377, 378, 406, 412, 426, 458, 460; birth of, 310–11; in Rome, 486, 487; and illness and death of, 517–18, 519–20, 526, 658
Shelley, N.I. White, xii, 474 n.
Shelley and Mary, ed. Lady Jane Shelley, 258 n.
Shelley Estate Settlement, 229, 276, 283–5, 313, 314–15, 319, 320–1, 710–11
Shelley — Michelgrove family, 9
Shelley — Sidney family, 9, 276
Shelley Society, 31
Sidmouth, Lord, 125, 128 n., 137, 146–7, 148, 149, 159, 160, 364, 531, 533
Sidney, Sir Philip, 611, 642, 658
Silsbee, Edward, 733
Sketches in Hindoostan with Other Poems, Tom Medwin, 617
Skinner Street, see Godwin
Slatter and Munday’s bookshop, Oxford, 36, 37, 38, 39–40, 43, 49, 50, 51, 55
Sleeping Hermaphrodite, Rome, 436, 566, 605
Smith, Adam, 43, 202
Smith, Horace, 351, 359, 361, 391, 410, 412, 550, 657, 682, 711; his view of Shelley, 359–60, 362; Shelley borrows £250 from, 379; acts as financial agent for Shelley, 648–9 & n.; and pirate edition of Queen Mab, 660, 661; his move to Florence, 662, 671, 674; and decision to spend winter in Paris, 676–7; loans money to Hunt, 694; refuses loan to Shelley, 701; Shelley’s letters from Lerici to, 716, 727
Smith, Robert Metcalf, xi, 353 n.
Society for the Suppression of Vice, 208, 209, 611, 660 & n.
Society of United Irishmen, 119 n.
Socinus, Faustus, 121 & n.
Socrates, 430, 435, 436–7
Sophocles, 424, 445, 461, 571
South America, revolutionary movements in, 117, 222, 583
Southey, Robert, 8, 30, 71, 86, 93, 94, 98, 123, 174 n., 182, 201, 274, 342, 401, 464, 689; Shelley’s relationship with, 99–102, 111, 113; Hazlitt’s view of, 101 n.–102 n.; Shelley sends copy of Adonais to, 310; and condemnation of, 384; and Shelley believes him to be author of Quarterly attack, 543; angry correspondence leads to break between Shelley and (1820), 607–8, 667; pirate edition of Wat Tyler and, 661
Spa Fields Riot (1816), 364
Spain, Republican insurrection in, 581, 583
Spectator, 38
Spencean Society, 8, 363
Spenser, Edmund, 401, 475 & n., 501 n.
La Spezia, 677, 696, 697, 700, 708, 709, 710, 713, 728, 729
Spinoza, Baruch, 182, 201, 298 n., 380, 687 The Spirit of the Age, William Hazlitt, 275 n., 101 n. — 102 n.
Stacey, Sophia, friendship between Shelley and, 564–8, 579, 632
Staël, Mme de, 338
Stanhope, Lord, 156
Starling (money-lender), 219, 229, 265, 266
‘A Statue of Minerva’, 566
Steele, Richard, 207
Stockdale, John James, 33, 39, 42, 45
Stockdale, R. & J. (Dublin), 99, 156
Stories from the Italian Poets, Leigh Hunt, 733
The Subjection of Women, J.S. Mill, 633 n.
Suetonius, 274, 434
Swann, Joseph, 541
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 342
Switzerland, 6, 150, 236, 237, 669; Shelley’s journey to (1814), 239–41, 247
Symposium (The Banquet: Plato), 26, 448, 632; Shelley’s translation of, 295 n., 305, 430–8, 444, 605, 612
Syon House Academy, Isleworth, 12; Shelley’s schooldays at, 4–6, 13–17, 22, 295
Système de la Nature, Baron Paul d’Holbach, 106, 202; Shelley’s translation of, 147
Système du Monde, Marquïs de Laplace, 220
Taaffe, Count John, 624, 626, 652, 655, 659, 686, 687, 690; dragoon incident and, 706–8, 709, 710; recounts death of Shelley in Bay of Spezia, 729, 787
Tacitus, 243, 404, 626
Tan-yr-allt, Tremadoc; Shelley’s stay in, 164–7, 171, 176–7, 178–97; and assassination attempt at, 187–8, 190–7, 332, 363; and debts incurred by Shelley at, 213–14
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 584
Tales of Terror, M. B. Lewis, 3
Tasso, 261, 458–9; Shelley’s projected drama on, 416, 417, 424–5, 426, 429, 444
Taylor, Thomas, 431
Tempest, William Shakespeare, 493, 571, 705
The Temple of Nature, Erasmus Darwin, 182
Temple of Saturn, Rome, 487 & n.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 38
Terni waterfall, 459–60
‘Thalaba’, Robert Southey, 30, 217
Thames river, 368; Shelley’s boating expedition (1815), 291–4
Theatrical Inquisitor, 595
Thelwall, trial for treason of, 8, 576
Theocritus, 560
The Theological Inquirer, or, Polemical Magazine, 210, 280
‘There be none of Beauty’s daughters’, Byron, 317–18
Thistlewood (Cato Street conspirator),
579, 580
Thomas, Edward, ix
Thomas, Pierce (customs surveyor), 137
Thompson, E. P., 97 n., 208, 384–5 n.
Three Accounts of Peterloo, 530 n.
Thucydides, 181, 307
Tighe, George William (‘Tatty’), 576, 580, 592, 596, 603, 614, 648; see also Mason, Mrs and family
The Times, 352, 389, 530 & n.
Tita (Byron’s servant), 665, 686, 715
Toller, Ernst, 402 n., 763
Tone, Wolfe, 106, 122, 123
Tooke, Horne, 7, 8, 168, 576
‘To the Electors of Westminster’, Burdett’s open letter, 539
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Spinoza, Shelley’s translation of, 687
Trajan, 488
Treason Trials, 8, 165 n., 168
Treath Mawr (Caernarvonshire), 163, 164, 177
Tre Donzelle, Albergo delle, see Pisa
Trelawny, Edward John, ix, x, 208, 640, 703, 710, 725, 728; his arrival in Pisa, 695; and friendship with Shelleys, 695–6, 704; and the ‘Spezia Plan’, 696–7; and Carnival time, 697; dragoon incident and, 706–8; accompanies Mary and Claire to La Spézia, 712–13; and new sailing boat, 716, arrives at Lerici on board the Bolivar, 724; and sails for Livorno, 725; and waves goodbye to Shelley, 729; arranges burning and burial of Shelley’s body, 730; Claire resumes correspondence with, 731; sails for Greece with Byron, 731; his later activities and death, 731–2, 733
Tremadoc New Town and Embankment Project and Fund, 163–7, 172, 178–88
Tre Palazzi di Chiesa, see Pisa
The Trial, Henry Hunt, 530 n.
Trotter, Thomas, 182, 202
Troyes (France), 237–8, 239, 242, 322
Turkey, Turks, 624, 652
Turner, Thomas, 270, 314
Turner, William, 8, 371
Tyler, Wat, 8
Uffizi Gallery, 15, 295, 542, 565–8
Ugolino, Count, 574
‘The Uncanny’, Sigmund Freud, 261 n.
United Irishmen, 123, 124, 128, 142 n., 576
Vaccà, Andrea, 572, 577, 578, 629, 646, 708, 728
Valperga, Mary Shelley, 610, 619, 655, 663, 673, 675–6 & n.
The Vampyre, Dr William Polidori, 330
Vatican, 460, 485, 509
Venice, 369, 417, 439, 471, 520, 551; Byron’s life in Palazzo Mocenigo, 419, 420, 440; Elise accompanies Allegra to, 421–2, 472; and Shelley’s visit in 1818, 440–58, 482; see also Este
Venus Anodyomene statue, 567
Vesuvius, 2, 462, 463, 464, 469, 470, 477, 479, 482, 499, 502 n.
Viareggio, 696, 710, 729
Via Sestini, see Rome
Villa Capuccini, see Este
Villa Diodati, see Geneva
Villa Marchese Poschi, see Pugnano
Villa Valsovano, see Monte Nero
Virgil, 434, 462, 633 n., 718
‘Vision of Judgement’, Byron, 728, 731
Vita Nuova, Dante, 631, 632, 633 n., 634
Vivian, Charles (boat-boy on Don Juan), 728, 729, 730
Viviani, Contessa Emilia, 652, 659, 698; Claire’s visits in Convent of St Anna to, 624–5; her appearance, 625; and Shelley’s first meetings with, 625–6, 627, 628; and relationship with, 629–31, 639–40, 641; and with Mary, 630; and Epipsychidion, 631–2, 633, 634, 635, 636; marriage of, 649, 676; and Shelley’s elegy, ‘Ginevra’, 649–50
Viviani, Count Niccolò, 625
Voisey, Henry, 250
Volney, Count, 8, 202, 660
Voltaire, 8, 26, 43, 66, 200, 274, 414, 689
Walcheren military fiasco, 43, 51
Wales, 160, 286; Shelley’s stay at Cwm Elan, 61, 73–7, 78, 143–5; and at Nantgwillt, 133–43; and flight from Lynmouth to, 161; and in Tan-yr-allt (Tremadoc), 164–7, 178–97
Walker, Dr Adam, 16–17
Walker, Rev. Jocelyn, 50
Wallachia, Greek uprising in, 624, 646, 677
‘A War Eclogue’, S. T. Coleridge, 327
Warnham, 10, 11; Church, 23, 71; Pond, 1, 3, 18
Wat Tyler, Robert Southey, 8, 101, 401, 661
Weekly Political Pamphlet, 364
Weekly Register, 151
Weishaupt, Dr Adam, 52
Wellington, Duke of, 179, 476
Westbrook, Eliza, 75, 76, 116, 145, 172, 199, 213; her first meeting with Shelley, 66–7; Harriet’s dependence on, 68, 69, 89–90, 93; and Shelley’s marriage to Harriet, 78–9; her role in Shelley’s breach with Hogg, 89–91; in Keswick, 93, 94; and in Dublin, 117, 125; and on journey to Wales, 133, 134; leaves Lynmouth, 161; dinner with Hogg, 173; and departure of Miss Hitchener, 175, 176; returns to Tremadoc, 176; and shooting incident, 190, 194, 197; moves back to London, 199, 200; antagonism between Shelley and, 216, 225; moves to Edinburgh, 219; returns to Bracknell with Harriet, 223, 224; and accompanies Harriet on West Country holiday, 226; Shelley-Harriet separation and, 251, 253, 256; Harriet’s suicide and custody of her children, 353–7
Westbrook, Harriet, see Shelley, Harriet
Westbrook, John, and Mrs, 66, 67, 69, 94, 109, 144, 199, 213, 226, 238, 253; Harriet’s suicide and custody of her children, 352–7
Westminster Review, 586 & n.
What is Love, Richard Carlile, 557 n.
Whigs, 10, 43, 51, 52, 54, 164, 165, 184
Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad, M.R. James, 259 n.
White, Newman Ivey, xi-xii, 187 n., 353 n., 466 n., 474 n., 592 n., 768
Whittaker, W. B. (publisher), 676 n.
Whitton (Timothy Shelley’s solicitor), xi, 59–60, 61, 83, 88, 104, 136, 276, 379, 550, 648; Shelley Estate settlement negotiated by, 281, 283–5, 313, 320
Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown, 221 & n., 371 n.
Willats, William (financier), 407, 408
Williams, Helen, 600
Williams, Edward, 601, 662, 677, 685, 687, 695, 696, 702; his comments on Queen Mab, 210, 728; invited with Medwin to Italy, 581; and friendship with Shelley’s, 640, 641, 651, 661, 663; capsizing of boat incident, 646–7; and new boat arrives in Pisa, 650; summer residence in Villa Marchese Poschi, Pugnano, 650, 651; and boating expeditions, 651–2, 655; paints portrait of Mary, 673; his support for Greek revolutionary struggle, 677; moves to Tre Palazzi in Pisa, 682; his first meeting with Byron, 686; and his diary, 686, 691; as Shelley’s amanuensis, 687; and reckless trips on Arno, 688; his play, The Promise, rejected, 691; and Trelawny’s arrival in Pisa, 696; ‘Spezia Plan’, 696; and Carnival time, 697; Shelley appeals for his help in poem to, 698–700; and sailing trips, 702–3, 725–6; and celebrates launching of new boat, 704; dragoon incident and, 708; moves to Lerici, 712–13, 714; on Shelley’s vision of naked child, 714–15; and new sailing boat arrives, 715–16, 717; Bolivar sails into Lerici, 724; refits Don Juan, 725, 726; sailing trip to meet Hunt postponed, 727; sails for Livorno with Shelley, 728; and drowned in storm in Bay of Spezia, 729
Williams, Jane, 581, 601, 640, 646, 702; friendship with Shelleys, 640, 641, 661, 663; birth of 2nd baby, 640; and summer residence in Pugnano, 650, 651, 652; moves to Tre Palazzi in Pisa, 682; and Byron’s arrival, 686–7; ‘Spezia Plan’ and, 697; and Pisan Carnival, 697; her new relationship with Shelley, 700–1, 725, 726; and new sailing boat, 704, 715; moves to Lerici, 712–13, 714, 717; and Mary’s miscarriage, 724; Shelley’s lyrics and ariettes to, 726; and his visions, 727; Shelley’s last letters to, 728–9; and Shelley’s death, 730; becomes Hogg’s common law wife, 731; Mary renews friendship with, 732
Williams, John (manager of Tremadoc project), 165, 166, 167, 172, 178, 179, 181, 184, 185, 214, 229, 239, 284 n., 286, 321; shooting incident and, 188, 189, 190, 194, 196, 197
Williams, Mrs John, 190 & n.
Wilson, John, 404 n.
Windsor, 282, 286, 291, 294, 300, 342; Shelley’s house at (1813), 224
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 463, 469, 485
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1st Mrs Godwin), 7, 153, 169, 171, 202, 206, 230, 232, 237, 239, 248, 257, 274, 291, 311, 432, 517, 575; biographical details, 124 n.
Wolseley, Sir
Charles, 541
Wooler, Tom, 155, 370 n., 371, 590 n., 660
Wordsworth, William, ix, 8, 64, 74, 93, 94 & n., 100 n., 152, 170, 221, 257, 295 n., 308, 324, 327, 337, 360, 429, 487, 543, 547, 551; Shelley’s opinion of, 274–5, 384; and Shelley’s assessment in Peter Bell the Third, 551, 552, 554–5
Working-class radicalism, 97, 98, 139, 151, 363–4, 366, 384–8, 529–31, 537, 591
Working Men’s Associations, 7
Wright & Owen (New York publishers), 209
Wroe, James, 541
A Year’s Residence in the United States of America, William Cobbett, 522
Yeats, W. B., xii
Yellow Dwarf, 182
York, 75, 77, 78, 79, 185; Shelley’s stay in, 82–3, 84–7, 89–91, 214, 215
‘A Youth said to be Apollo’ (sculpture), 566
Ypsilanti, General, 646, 652
Zofloya, or, the Moor, Charlotte Dacre, 14, 31
Zoonomia, Erasmus Darwin, 75 n., 182