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...SHELLEY - Newman Ivey White -Knopf (2 vols...
Forced to think about Percy Bysshe Shelley, most people visualize something with wild hair, wild eyes, a decollete shirt, poised to intone: "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover...
Since he left Harvard in 1939 at the end of his Sophomore year, Brown has worked on Time and for the past year has been a member of the New Yorker editorial staff. In 1938 he won the $500 Shelley Prize for Poetry. Thompson has contributed to the New Republic and Poetry Magazine...
...Indians and the Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch and hearty...
Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...