Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-04-07

U4D6xs I19 WIS u 0IlClcut family
being ! descendant Of the Sackvillcs
Who were worthily connected with
the beginning or Eli2abethan litera.
ture. His earlier schooling was oh.
tanned at Sion House, Brentford
and Eton. The most important in.
cidents in his career at the latter
wcre bis resistance TO the time-hon.
ored custom Of tagging and his
composition q the age OF fifteen oil
two mel0dramatic romances.
AT sixteen Shelly entered the Tn
iyefsity Of Oxford. While here, his
favorite occupations were microsco.
pic studies, chemistry and botany.
Shelly was sensitive and way ward,
and thrown az be was, into tho bus
Ting world Of Z school where selfish.
ness, tyranny and a disregard fol
the truth, except where q point Of
honor was concerned, were the first
characteristics which strnck his
observation, he imhibed ideas which
made his after life very unhappy"
His nature was too delicate to
ilnd pleasure in the gross tastes oil
his companions and he could not
endure the temporary servitudes o.
school usage or the more serions re.
straints Of school discipline.
He had never been accustomed te
surrender his will to that Of Others
from gentle motives and would not
do 30 when custom OF authority ex'
acted it; 20 be and his companions
become rebels from the very hour
Of their introduction.
He was expelled from the Universe,
" Of Oxford in 1871 for a pamphlet
which he wrote on the Necessity O
Atheism and the same year ht
fortified his fatar's aid and favor by
marrying the pretty daughter Of q
eoffee-house keeper.
Three years later he separated
from his wife and eloped with Miss
Goodwin, daughter of q novelist, Il
Switzerland. In 1916 when his
wife had committed suicide, Shell.
ley married Miss Goodwin and re.
turned TO England.
The two children Of his first wife
were taken from him by a decision
Of the Lord Chancellor, on the
ground that the author of "Queen
Mab"-an athestital poem OF his
youth-was not the proper person
to have the custody Of children
His subsequent life in England
is said to have been characterized
by many acts of benevolence to the
poor and suffering Of his immediate
neighborhood and by noble displays
Of generosity towards his unfortu-
nate friends. He lived at open war
with the usages of social life, so the
laws Of society were turned against
him; and just when better prospects
wero dawing upon him, when his
mind was beginning to assume the
Z irmer tone and his convictions a
more definite shape, wen his life be.
gan 70 be frightened by new inter
ests and q sort Of truce was estab,
lished between himself and his enc.
mies, he was called suddenly and
fearfully"
ITO the relm without a namc,
Out Of this valley Of perpetual dream"
His last days were spent in Italy
where he had gone to find a climate
more congenial to his delicate con.
stitution than that of England. He
was drowned July 9Th, 1922, by the
capsizing Of q small sail boat while
on her return from Leghom to
Lerici. He was inferred in the
Protestant burial ground at Rome
beside his brother poests, Bryon and
Leigh Hunt.
Shelley's productions are-Queen
Nab; Alastor, or the Spirit of Soil
tnde; Revolt of Islam; Hellas and
the Witch Of Atlas,-fierce inyec-
tivcs against religion, marriage,
kingcraft and priestcraf.--Prome
thsns Unbound, The Cencidramatic
poems; 4 native poem-Rosalind
and Helen; Adonis "a lament on
the early death of Keats; The Sensi.
tive Plant and many minor poems,
besides several volumes Of essays
and letters.
6helley's sensitive mind found
great consolation in nature and es-
pecially did he love the water, OH
which be spent a great deal Of his
time, first on the Thames, then on
Lake Geneva. and then on the Arno
and other Italian waters. He pain.
ted nature truly, but in portrayine
character he failed. That knowl-
edge Of life which most poets have
in common with novelists, he had
not When he tried to create char.
acters and events, he only produced
unreal and imaginary ones.
"Once only, in the Cenci did he
inspire : living figure, elsewhere
his world Is beyond our own; it il
insthe regions Of space, above our
conception. In vigor and holiness
81 poetic faculties, Shelley is unsur-
paased, No region was too remote,
too ethereal for his sweeping imagi-
nation, no path SO slight or winding
q 70 be altogether lost in his search
ing eye. His imaginative impulses
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