This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. Art. I.--1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. One Volume. London, 1854. 2. Life of P. B. Shelley. By Thomas Jefferson Hogg. London, 1858. Vols. I. and "II. 3. Shelley Memorials from Authentic Sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. London, 1859. 4. Recollections ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. Art. I.--1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley. One Volume. London, 1854. 2. Life of P. B. Shelley. By Thomas Jefferson Hogg. London, 1858. Vols. I. and "II. 3. Shelley Memorials from Authentic Sources. Edited by Lady Shelley. London, 1859. 4. Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. By E. J. Trelawney. London, 1858. 5. Fraser's Magazine, Nos. 342 and 361, Memoir of Percy Bysshe Shelley. By T. L. Peacock. SHELLEY has been unfortunate in his biographers. His widow interspersed her edition of his works with very interesting biographical notes; but they were only notes; she was not permitted to speak out. Mr. Hogg's two bulky volumes contain some lively descriptions of the poet's life at Oxford; but of their remaining contents it is hardly possible to speak with patience. Mr. Hogg is a clever man, and a lawyer, and, as he is constantly assuring us, a very fastidious person to boot; and yet he has less notion of what the things are which a biographer ought to relate, and of the order in which they should be told, than might have been expected from the clumsiest hack. His materials were valuable. Of the indiscretion with which some of them have been made public, we shall have something to say by-and-by; but those which are innocuous are so awkwardly arranged, that any but the most cautious reader is almost certain to be" misled, both as to dates and still more important matters. Mr. Hogg has overlaid his book with autobiographical details which have no connexion whatever with his hero; and when he does condescend to tell us about Shelley, instead of telling us about himself, he is so unhappily destitute of the dramatic faculty which is indispensable to a biographer, that, while he talks...
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