Word: shelleys
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...SHELLEY LEGEND-Robert Metcalfe Smith & Others-Scribners...
Percy Bysshe Shelley has been beckoning from the abode where the Eternal are. His signals, picked up by a literary Ariel who signs herself: "Shirley Carson Jenney, Clairaudient Psychic," are transcribed in The Fortune of Eternity. The book, she says, ''has been transmitted wholly thro' clairaudient dictation...
Author Jenney gives all credit for her 124-page collaboration to Poet Shelley, who has also supplied the foreword ("Whenever I have tried to compass the thought of mankind as possessing relevance to the eternal spheres, it has become clearly evident to me that the Earthman was choiring his way. . . . The prisms of chance do not allow too great an opportunity for merit or renown; they revoke the essential, and persuade mankind into linear aspects such as the ulterior powers descry for illusive dedications."). More surprising is a second foreword by William Ewart Gladstone, disembodied but still magisterial...
...Script of Christ, which for some reason seems to have been dictated in the inspirational style of the late Aimee Semple McPherson. In the other, the book's title piece, Shelley proclaims the news that "GOD IS." There is also a sort of undertaker's garland of poems written since Shelley "passed over." Many of them, like From the Death of the Skylark, are unfortunately fragments. Sample...
Dome of Many Colored Glass. These ghostly skylarkings merely carry to the point of caricature the lovingly-labored transformation of Shelley from flaming infidel to versifying vicar at which Author Smith & Others* tilt grimly in The Shelley Legend. The "Shelley Legend," they say, "is a term used to characterize fallacious views about the life of Shelley and his writings which have grown up principally under the careful supervision first of Mary Shelley [Shelley's second wife], and after her death, in 1851, of Lady Shelley, wife of the poet's son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley." The authors...