Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

JOHN WORTHEN is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. His books include The Life of William Wordsworth: A Critical Biography (2014); The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2010); T. S. Eliot: A Short Biography (2009); Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician (2007); and D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005).

• List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgements xiAbbreviations and Texts xiiiForeword xviiPart I Background, Foreground 1792–1811 11 A Scholar, a Gentleman, and a Poet 1792 –1810 32 ‘Bit’ 1796 –1811 123 Panting to Seize the Wings of Morn 1810 –1811 214 Printing Freaks 1810 –1811 325 The Necessity of Atheism, Expulsion & Debt 1811 43Part II Lover of Mankind, Democrat & Atheist 1811–1818 556 A Shelley Business! 1811 577 My New Sister 1811 –1813 678 Tan‐yr‐allt 1813 789 Queen Mab: Shadows of the Dream 1812 –1813 8310 A Rash & Heartless Union 1813 –1814 9611 Mary Godwin 1814 10312 This is a Vampire 1814 –1815 11313 Alastor 1815 –1816 12414 Geneva and Byron 1816 13515 A Series of Pain 1816 14916 Drowned, Frozen, Dead 1816 15817 Laon and Cythna: Writing against Death 1817 16718 My Country Dear to Me Forever 1817 –1818 180Part III Expatriation 1818–1821 19119 Italy: As Light in the Sun, Throned 1818 19320 Flowering Islands 1818 20721 A Birth in Naples 1818 –1819 22222 Exceeding Grief: The Cenci 1819 23023 Prometheus Unbound 1819 24024 Satiric Reality 1819 24825 Beam‐Anatomising Prism 1819 –1820 25826 Harmonious Madness 1820 26827 Swellfoot the Tyrant 1820 28028 Epipsychidion v. Flesh & Blood 1820–1821 29129 Defending Poetry 1821 30230 This Latest of my Orphans 1821 313Part IV No Rest or Respite 1821–1822 32131 Ariel to Miranda 1821 –1822 32332 To the Villa Magni 1822 33533 ‘The Triumph of Life’ 1822 34234 Enchanted Heart 1822 34935 Upon a Precipice 1822 36236 Going to Join Friend Plato 1822 37037 Beyond this Life 379Notes 393Bibliography 448Index 457