Percy Bysshe Shelley came of a junior and comparatively undistinguished branch of a very old and noted family.

It will be sufficient here to begin with the poet's grandfather, Bysshe Shelley.

No one has managed to discover in the parents of Percy Bysshe any qualities furnishing the prototype or the nucleus of his poetical genius, or of the very exceptional cast of mind and character which he developed in other directions.

The parents were commonplace: if we go back to the grandfather, Sir Bysshe, we encounter a man who was certainly not commonplace, but who seems to have been devoid of either poetical or humanitarian fervour.

But in January 1815 Sir Bysshe Shelley died, and Percy's money affairs improved greatly.

An arrangement was arrived at with his father, whereby he received a regular annual income of £1000, out of which he assigned to Harriet £200 for herself and her two childrena son, Charles Bysshe, having been born in November 1814 (he died in 1826).

An editorial note was worded thus: 'Through the kindness of a friend, we have been favoured with the latest production of a gentleman of no ordinary genius, Mr. Bysshe Shelley.

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We might have also mentioned the idea of a deliverer, waited for patiently through ages of darkness, and at least arriving in the person of the child of Io but, in truth, there is no pleasure, and would be little propriety, in seeking to explain all this at greater length, considering, what we cannot consider without deepest pain, the very different views which have been taken of the original allegory by Mr. Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Let us hope that Percy Bysshe Shelley is not destined to leave behind him, like that great genius, a name for ever detestable to the truly FREE and the truly WISE.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822.

Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. R107222.

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Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. R107222.

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Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. R107222.

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R109302, 20Mar53, George H. Sheldon (A) SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE.

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