The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-02-19
MATTHEW ARNoLD,s s1onr OF sHELLEY
The Great Enrlish Poet es he Really Was
No Religion md Cloudy Morsiity-His
Eccentric Life, Marriages and Children.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born ut Field
Place. near Horsham. in Sussex. on the 4th OF
August. 1902. He was Of IN old family of coun-
try gentlemen. and the heir to a baronetcy. Ho
had one brother and five sisters, but the broth
or 80 much younger than himself rs to be no
companion for him in his boyhood at homo.
and after he was separated from homo and
England he never saw him. Shelley was
brought up at Field Place with his sisters.
At 10 years old he was sent to a private school
at 1sleworth, where he read Mrs. Radclifre's ro-
mances and was fascinated by a popular scien-
tiflc lecturer. After two years OF private school
he went in 1904 to Eton. Here he took no part
in cricket or football, refused to fog. was
known as =" mad Shelley" and much torment
could be- dangerous. Certainly. he was not
happy at Eton but he had friends, no, boa,ed.
son rA W n e asSn g The Si@ S%Cun nnl his His se sshiE9l i ss.
sah SHWin's pd h sspd ,a Fiisy's r Natural HE|S s /
Isl Shelley at Eton - but this Is not SO well es-
lev, He was. ifuiili, at any rate, of new and
fT ro@ tho srSo idIehbs st and rsd,I Mas t iwiSS SeT he led
reference Of his father.
in the spring, Of isiS. Shelley, now in his 18th
SSs sSbfib ffhItsred qH9 s nad , G9 , e oxford Oxford n as an
and poems q poem on the Wandering jew, in
seven or eight c%anios, he sent to Campbell. and
sspOnde ne OF y Mrs s0 HemasDDsi,.e 's sRen sn' f SHfcf,
with a charming eousin. Harriet Gr we In the the
autumn Of $50 he found n publisher for his
verse Nn1 ra he als nad found a friend ia a very Gl,eyer
seribed the Shelley Of those oX;ord days, with
shrilI. disse9rdant voice. Shelley read inees-
T III inspres ssinS Sn hin,; lis i pFS1 spSsal " PSwIS sd
him to what his father, and. worse still. his
s SiSiss ;, His hsF coasin th Sna his f nasIss Gseamp pr as.
trangcd from him. He, on his part, became
more and more incensed acains, the "bigptry"
my oqths may, 1%ninity. Eternity. blast me-
%ernnce.," At the beginning Of 1871 he prepared
and published wi what he called I 4 oleSaiiet fer lot;
70 tho vicc-Chancellor Of Oxford. and to the
heads Of houses. On Lady Day he WIS sum
written The, Necessity Of NthSism," told the
Would become a court Of inquisiiors but not
free men in a free country" and was expelled
Shelley settled with Hoeg in lodgings in Lon
don. His father. cxcusably indignant, was, nota
wise man and managed his son III; His plan OF
seli. makes Is smile. Shelley. who about this
at as School at clapham. There arc, some hopes
IF Iift, th ssio dear If i li,Ils fiyl' # she c %GIgld gs Se : b6 dIYin oi
Natural Theology adminislered through, MIR.
Timothy Shelley. But by the middle, of May
ters at, their School. in CIapham. shel,
iiee G M" Of theirs he'll "t Harriet Westbrook. s'i She
was a beautiful and lively girl. with q father
who had Kept u tavern in Mount street. but had
now rptirpl from husinpSS. and pnp sister much
older. than herself. who encouraged in every
possible way the acquaintance Of her sister OF
sixteen with the heir to Il baronetcy and ~ great
estate. Soon Shelley heard that Harriet met
with cold looks at, her school for associatiGg
indis nn Hahe'S asa nis Sen Sintolsr anS Us f wsrs
reused. In the sumner Harriet wrote to him
aha hs shS w aIso pGIssfs shs w nHs i na sfgG and pn mi.o Sa.
b III, and Won would q s gladly n.y. put sbo an Gw1 END b to h Ioln life go.
had been blighted when the other Harriet,
only thing worth living for was ssif.sac.
riace. Harriets Prosecutors became yet
August. went or with her to Edinburgh and
they were married The entry in tho register
and Ar sil: % h 1slli F Hss,sr 5Ss.n st. s asafs~ t SsgEsi fa:iss.
daughter of MIR. John Westorook. London.
After five weeks in Edinburgh the young farm
inGs at York. underline shadow OF what Shelley
s Ginste chat Bit pSIsRhfn s fri eI1s IF ao sape wal in la tho
yer's Office in York, and Hogs society made
the Minister endurablo. Nj; Timothy Shelley's
:s!Ie ~ i"s a%a shs Miisyllds ster% ri ssdYp To- yi 81
a nddif to 5h@@a 9fy ,io m 'ores as h irG iaiIs his hnOR naT Tim.
Nothing could be- eNected: Is%;iEellssyy''ss moth.
s5it ssa' to T York s 1S, and Af fha' in his him absen ice
his friend. Hogg Ind been making love to Har-
riet. who had indignan,ly repulsed him: shel,
doned him " promised to retain him still as" his
convince 81. him how lovely ely virtue tue wa HoSPfBS But S for the he
present i seemed better to separate: In No
t Se%1 e co hs spa at K KssWfsk. will sbd hSr s wss n Iliz f.
great straits for money: the great Sussex
nIeiGhbor Of the + Shelleys' the Duke Of Norfolk;
at this, lime an income Of $4,000 a
family estate, Shelley Indignantly refused
1 npo uforIw se ips his priIrehip nts;u, BY 3 me aseiH 81
BbeePp P rs father sRheTI asreed, th ho1s!Ri; with Ru an m III p sfsee.
and M Westbrook promised to allow = like
marriage the Shcllcys began 1872 with an in
come OF f40O a yonr.
ceeded to Dublin. where Shelley. who had pre-
pared an address to the Catholics. meant to
ends Of virtuS and happines sSih in ireEiarn mG St Bee
fore leaving keswick lie wrote to William God.
win, tho regulator and former Of his mind"
making profession of hi, mental obligations to |
him. Of Ills respect and generation. and solicit
followed: Goodwin ,pronounced his young dis
ciple's rIans for "dissemiIating The Doctrines
DO unwise; Shelley bowed to his mentors de-
cisioI, and gave up his Irish campaign. quit
Harriet wandered to, plymouth. in North
Devon. where. he busted himself with his poem OF
Queen Nab. and with sending to sea boxes and
bottles c2ntaininEa Declaration OF Rights by
might carry his doctrines y" Where e.st they y% Would TiV do
good. But his Irish servant. bearing tho pro-
on the walls Of Barnstap!e and was taken IN;
Shelley found himself watched and no longer
in September, 1872. to Tremndoc. In North
Walcs. where he threw himself ardently into an
enterprise for recovering n great stretch OF
drowned land from the sea. but mt the begin
n nna shs SlifsyV sraspe "I' Godwis' BY Ei?ttGha tho ihD anG at
last. A. nee az Intimacy prose, but tho future
wife, Mary. Wollstonecraft-was absent on a
visit in Scotland when the Shelloys arrived
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