from Percy
Bysshe Shelley Walter
Bagehot (1856)
The
peculiarity of his style is its intellectuality; and this strikes us the
more from its contrast with his impulsiveness ... So in his writings; over
the most intense excitement, the grandest objects, the keenest agony, the
most buoyant joy, he throws an air of subtle mind. His language is
minutely and acutely searching; at the dizziest height of meaning the
keenness of the word is greatest ... In the wildest of ecstasies his
self-anatomising intellect is equal to itself.
from Charles
Lamb (source not provided)
For his
theories and nostrums, they are oracular enough; but I either comprehend
'em not, or there is 'miching
malice' and mischief in 'em, but, for the most part, ringing with
their own emptiness.
Shelley I
saw once. His voice is the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented
with, ten thousand times worse than the Laureate's, whose voice is the
worst part about him, except his Laureateship.
from William
Hazlitt (source not provided)
..he has a fire in his eye, a
fever in his blood, a maggot in his brain, a hectic flutter in his speech.
. . . He is sanguine-complexioned, and shrill-voiced. . . . His bending,
flexible form appears to take no strong hold of things, does not grapple
with the world about him, but flows from it like a river.
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Shelley's poetry
To Night
The Question
When the Lamp Is Shattered
Ode to the West Wind
Song: Rarely, Rarely Comest
Thou
To a Skylark
Autumn: a Dirge
Time
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Edward Lear
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