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Dactylic Don Juan. To Matthew Arnold's dictum that Shelley was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain," Author Smith & Others snort an indignant Jig-gerypoo! Shelley, they insist, was a dactylic Don Juan, a Byron of the Bohemian underbrush. "The difficulty with the Shelley worshippers is that they cannot bring themselves to realize or to admit that...
...Shelley, as the family's persistent attempts to suppress the record show, believed in and practised free love throughout his life. . . ." ". . . the sisters and brothers of his soul . . . formed a procession that ceased only with his death...
When that occurred (by drowning, in the Gulf of Spezia, 1822), Shelley's second wife, Mary (the author of Frankenstein), was left penniless. For the sake of her small son, Percy Florence Shelley, the only one of their four children to survive the Italian climate or their father's theories of human happiness, she decided to go home and rehabilitate the Shelley name...
...most serious charge against Mary was that she had lured Shelley away from his first wife, Harriet Westbrook. Harriet was then carrying a child of Shelley's. After Shelley, Mary and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, had set up housekeeping in London, the Prophet of Perfect...
Love begged Harriet to come and live with them. He suggested that she might share him with Mary as generously as Author Smith & Others show that Shelley was sharing Mary with his old Oxford chum, Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Instead, Harriet drowned herself in the Serpentine...