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75Shelley, John,3Shelley, Lady,66note,81,83,180,186note,191Shelley, Margaret,3Shelley, Mary,79,111,112,154,158Shelley, Mr.,53Shelley, Mrs. (second wife),12,13,73,74,84,86,95,100,102,108-110,117,118,132,159,161,180,196Shelley, Miss,14,19Shelley, Percy Bysshe,2;birth of,3;position,4,5;relations with father,6;sent to Sion House, Brentford,8;subject to sleep-walking,8;distaste for school games,8;goes to Eton (1804),12;life there,12-13,15;experiments in chemistry and electricity,14;his taste for science,14-15;farewell supper at Eton,16;attachment to Harriet Grove,18;yearns for fame and publicity,19;finishesZastrozzi,19;his literary productions,19-21;enters University College, Oxford, as Leicester Scholar (1810),21;friendship with Hogg,22-33;genesis ofPosthumous Fragments,34;correspondence with distinguished persons,34;his favourite authors,35;antagonistic to Christianity,35;publication ofThe Necessity of Atheism,35;his expulsion from Oxford with Hogg,36,37,38;his atheistical opinions,39,40;settles with Hogg in London,43;his contempt for Paley’sEvidences,44;quarrels with his father,44;his poverty,45;helped by his sisters,45;visits his sisters at Clapham School, meets Harriet Westbrook,45;pays her frequent visits,46;revisits his old home,47;receives allowance of £200 a year,47;elopement and marriage with Harriet,51;life in George Street, Edinburgh,52;removes to York and resides with Hogg,53;arrival of Harriet’s sister Eliza,53;leaves York,55;goes to Keswick,55;visits Duke of Norfolk,55;his friendship with Godwin,58;sets sail for Ireland,59;hisAddress to Irish Peopledistributed,59;makes his debut as an orator, leaves Ireland,64;corresponds with Eliza Hitchener,65;settles at Nantgwilt,66;hisLetter to Lord Ellenborough,67;goes to Tanyrallt,68;sudden flight from Tanyrallt,70;subject to hallucinations,70,71;poverty,71;goes to London and takes rooms in Half-Moon Street,72;habits of his household,72-73;personal details,73-75;friendship with Mrs. Boinville and the Godwins,76;love for Mary Godwin,79-80;remarried to Harriet,80;his separation from Harriet,80;leaves England with Mary,83;return to England,84;walks London Hospital,84;commences poem ofAlastor,85;birth of William Shelley,88;second journey to Switzerland,88;joined by Byron,88;makes tour to Lake Geneva with Byron,89;excursion to Chamouni,90;hallucinations,91;returns to England and lives at Great Marlow,91-92;hears of Harriet’s death,92;friendship with Leigh Hunt,92-93;Chancery suitreHarriet’s children,93;works steadily atLaon and Cythna,95;meets Keats and the brothers Smith at Leigh Hunt’s house,100;his daily routine described,100;leaves England for Italy,103;pays visit to Lord Byron,105;improved health,108;companionship with Byron,109;his ideas on Italian poets,111;begins to study Spanish,112;composesDefence of Poetry,113;settles in Rome,118;loss of son William,118;removes to near Leghorn,119;begins and finishesThe Cenci,119;removes to Florence,119;birth of Sir P. Florence Shelley,119;attitude towards his critics,130;removes to Pisa,131;his high ideal of verse composition,137;visits the Contessina Emilia Viviani,138;sympathy for her,138;his criticisms,144;at work uponHellas,154;visits Byron at Ravenna,157;his affection for Jane Williams,159;first acquaintance with Trelawny at Pisa,161;accident,165;his daily routine,165;daily visit to Byron,166;nautical affairs,166-167;takes a home (Villa Magni) at Spezia,168-169;at Pisa with Leigh Hunt,176;return voyage,177;storm, loss of Shelley’s boat,177;discovery of bodies,178;cremation,179-180;burial at Rome,180;review of life and work,182;his genius,183-186;portrait of,186-187Attachment to his sisters,6;his love of games,6,7;sensitiveness,11;powers of memory,15;personality,25;his voice,25;his moral character,32-33;love for mankind,40;his faith,41;his creed,41-42;remorse,92;his charity,101,119;self-denial,102;sensibility to art,104;his melancholy,107;his self-criticism,128;his thoughts of death,151-152,154;his mental activity,162;the tranquillity in his life,169;his nicknames,166;nervousness,175;somnambulism,175Life of, by Professor Dowden,vShelley, Sir Percy Florence,3,119Shelley, Timothy,3,5,6,44Shelley, William,88,118,178Sidney, Philip Charles,4Sion House (Shelley’s school),6,8,12,14,18Sophocles,1,165,178Southey, Shelley’s favourite poet whilst at Sion House,19,55,196Speculations on Metaphysics,91,117St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian,21Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples, quotation from,153-154Stockdale, Mr. J. J. (publisher),19,20Swellfoot the Tyrant,120Taafe, Mr.,164Tasso,72,111,137To his Genius,143Trelawny, Captain,161,162;description of first meeting with Shelley,163-164;meets Shelley in Pisan Maremma,165et seq.,186note,187Triumph of Life(Shelley’s last great poem),95,170,171;quotations from,171-175Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Beaumont and Fletcher’s),112University Magazine, letter on Harriet Westbrook,48,49Venice,89,103,107,110Vivian, Charles (a sailor),167,177,178Viviani, Contessina Emilia,138,158Wandering Jew,19Westbrook, Mr.,93Westbrook, Eliza,46,53et seq.,65,71et seq.Westbrook, Harriet,18,45;first acquaintance with Shelley,46et seq.;elopement with Shelley, marriage at Edinburgh,51.SeeShelley, HarrietWestbrook, “Jew,”46,51,54Wilkie and Robinson, Messrs. (publishers),19Williams, Mr.,109,154,158et seq.,176-179,187Williams, Mrs. (Jane),154,158,159,163,164,169Windsor,17;Forest of,85Witch of Atlas,132Wollstonecraft, Mary,76,110Wordsworth,55,56,86,130,183York,48,51,53,55Zastrozzi,16;reviewed,19,21Zofloya the Moor(supposed source ofZastrozzi),19


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