Percy Bysshe Shelley : a biography

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Percy Bysshe Shelley : a biography

James Bieri

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

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Bibliography: p. [781]-801

Includes index

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This major biography of Shelley, England's most radical and controversial Romantic poet, is the first to appear in thirty years. Informed by the author's extensive research, psychological insight, and recent scholarship on Shelley and his circle, the biography stresses the intimate relationship between the poet's writing and his complex personality. James Bieri draws upon his dual background as a Shelley scholar and a psychologist to create a compelling narrative of Shelley's multifaceted life. Shelley's personality transcends any entreaty either to see it "plain" or to be labeled with a clinical diagnosis. Remarkably resilient, he was continually creative despite intervals of depression and periodic, hallucinatory panic attacks. Fascinated by the human psyche, he incorporated into his poetry his own self-analysis, including a remarkably sophisticated theory of love that provided the title to his most powerful erotic poem, Epipsychidion. Bieri also probes Shelley's numerous emotional, romantic, and familial entanglements. Based on the author's twenty years of research, the book includes new information on the discovery of Shelley's older illegitimate half-brother; important letters of his father and grandfather; his mother's early life, her letters about young Shelley, and her major influence upon Shelley; the first published portrait of Sophia Stacey, who beguiled Shelley in Florence; and further evidence on Shelley's secretly adopted Neapolitan infant. This biography offers a sympathetic and nuanced view of Shelley's tumultuous life, personality, and poetry.

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Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Youth's Unextinguished Fire, 1792-1816 1. The Politics of Paternity 2. "An Infancy Outlasting Manhood": Mother 3. The Young Prometheus 4. Exiled to Education 5. "Untaught Foresters": Eton Madness 6. Gothic "Wild Boy" and Harriet Grove 7. A Radical Poetic Identity 8. Icarus at Oxford 9. Doubling after the Fall: Harriet Westbrook and Elizabeth Hitchener 10. Elopement and Betrayal 11. Seeking New Fathers: Keswick 12. The Irish Expedition 13. Wandering Reformer 14. Phantasmagoria at Tanyrallt 15. Marital Disengagement 16. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 17. Births and Deaths 18. The Mirror of Self-Analysis 19. The Creative Swiss Summer Part II: Exile of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816-1822 20. The Dark Autumn of Suicides 21. Albion House: The Last English Year 22. "Paradise of exiles, Italy" 23. Euganean Isles of Misery: Venice 24. Paradise of Devils: Naples 25. Roman Tragedy and Creativity 26. Leghorn's "sad reality" 27. "a voice from over the Sea" 28. Florentine Voices: Unacknowledged Legislator and Sophia Stacey 29. Poetic Mothers: Pisa and Leghorn 30. Baths of San Giuliano 31. "Emily . . . my heart's sister" 32. "A Love in desolation masked" 33. The Last Pisan Winter 34. Drawn to the Sea 35. A "watery eclipse" 36. Life Terminable and Interminable Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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