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Griffin Authors Series  \nGEOFFREY CHAUCER Edwin J.HowardANDRE GIDE Thomas Cordle  \nTHOMAS HARDY Richard CarpenterHAROLD PINTER Arnold P.Hinchliffe  \nD.H.LAWRENCE Ronald P.Draper  \nBy DONALD H.REIMANThe Carl H.Pforzheimer Library  \nISBN 978-1-349-02954-9(eBook)  \nISBN 978-0-333-19653-3  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-02954-9  \nTwayne Publishers,Inc.,1969  \nReprint of the original edition 1969  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication maybe reproduced or transmitted,in any form or byany means,without permission  \nFirst published 1976 by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and Basingstoke  \nAssociated companies in New York DublinMelbourne Johannesburg and Madras  \nSBN 333196538  \nThis book is sold subject to the standard conditions ofthe Net Book Agreement.  \nThe paperback edition of this book is sold subject tothe condition that it shall not,by way of trade orotherwise,be lent,resold,hired out,or otherwise cir-culated without the publisher's prior consent,in anyform of binding or cover other than that in which it ispublished and without a similar condition includingthis condition being imposed on the subsequentpurchaser.  \nFor My Parents,Mildred and Henry W.Reiman  \n# Preface\n\nIn this book I have tried to give a brief,clear,and accurate ac-count of Shelley's life,freshly examining existing accounts in thelight of the primary evidence upon which they are based.I havestudied Shelley's writings anew and have given inclusive readingsof as many of them as space permits—especially those poems andessays that are,in my opinion,most important for a compre-hension of his thought and art.One wishing to understand Shelleyshould read at least these works:Alastor,“Mont Blanc,”“Hymnto Intellectual Beauty,”“Lines written among the EuganeanHills,\"\"“Julian and Maddalo,”Prometheus Unbound,The Cenci,“A Defence of Poetry,”Epipsychidion,Adonais,and\"The Triumphof Life.\"I have outlined the structure of each of them in detail,hoping to guide the reader’s understanding of the whole work(and the relation of individual parts to the whole)by chartingits thematic development.In treating such less-read works as TheRevolt of Islam,\"Peter Bell the Third,\"\"The Witch of Atlas,\"andHellas,I have condensed the thematic analysis but have quotedkey passages to give the reader the flavor of poems for which hemay not find time during his initial study of Shelley.  \nThe chronological plan of the book is not only the most con-venient for the reader wishing to review a phase of Shelley'scareer;it is,I believe,truest to the essential growth of Shelleyas an artist.Some have denied that his thought developed,butan examination of his changing conception of the roles of loveand poetry in human life shows how fallacious this denial is.Shelley's goals remained essentially unaltered,but his views onhow and to what extent men might achieve these ideals weretempered through an eventful lifetime of testing ideas in the firesof experience.Thus,although Shelley is not essentially an auto-biographical poet,an understanding of his life aids one in ac-counting for certain shifts of emphasis in his poetry.  \nI accept,of course,full responsibility for the interpretationspresented here(a number of which depart from previous read-ings),but I am greatly indebted to numerous scholars and criticswho have written on Shelley.Allusions in the text,as well as inthe notes and bibliography,both acknowledge my specific debtsand,hopefully,will guide the interested reader from this neces-sarily brief introduction to more detailed secondary studies andto the primary materials on which they are based.I have usuallyquoted (and cited locations)of Shelley's published writings fromthe following editions:poetry from the Oxford Standard Authorsedition,ed.Thomas Hutchinson(cited as“OSA”);prose from TheComplete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,ed.Roger Ingpen andWalter E.Peck(Julian Edition;cited as 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