The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)

The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Mr. Kegan Pauls InaccuraciesGodwins Early StoryFrom Socinianism to DeismIn the Service of PublishersHack-WorkPolitical JusticeCaleb WilliamsTemperance and FrugalityGodwins two imprudent MarriagesHis consequent ImpoverishmentHis personal AppearanceHis Speech and MannerHis morbid VanityHis Sensitiveness for his DignityHis Benevolence and HonestyGood Husband and good FatherLooking out for a suitable Young WomanMary WollstonecraftGodwins Regard for herMary in HeavenA Blighted Being. To guard against imputations of error, that may be unjustly preferred against this work on the authority of another man of letters, it is needful for me to call attention to certain inaccuracies of Mr. Kegan Pauls chief literary performance. In Chapter VII., Vol. II., of William Godwin; his Friends and Contemporaries, Mr. Kegan Paul remarks, The attraction which Godwins society always possessed for young men has often been noticed, nor did it decrease as years passed on. Two young men were drawn to him in the year 1811, fired with zeal for intellectual pursuits, and desiring help from Godwin. They were different in their circumstances, but were both unhappy, and both died young. The first was a lad named Patrickson, the second Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this characteristic sentence, Mr. Kegan Paul makes at least three blunders. As Patrickson was corresponding with William Godwin in December, 1810, the youth was drawn to the man of letters before 1811. As Shelley never saw William Godwin, never wrote him a line, before 1812 (though Mr. Denis Florence MacCarthy states otherwise, on the strength of a misread passage of one of the Oxonian Shelleys epistles), he certainly did not make Godwins[Pg 2] acquaintance in 1811. As he was corresponding with him for many months before he set eyes on him, Shelley was not in the first instance drawn to the author of Political Justice by his social charms. It is characteristic of Mr. Kegan Paul that the page on which he declares Patrickson to have made Godwins acquaintance, no earlier than 1811, faces the very page that exhibits the greater part of a letter from the man of letters to his ill-fated protg, dated Skinner Street, London, December 18th, 1810. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41748
Author: Jeaffreson, John Cordy
Release Date: Dec 31, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English