R520221C. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With an Introductory Essay, by Robert Browning.
The Spectator, 21 February 1852, pp. 182–183.
As reprinted in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 393.
“An opportunity having presented itself for the acquisition of a series of unedited letters by Shelley,” Mr. Moxon determined on securing them as an addendum to the correspondence already published by him. In this point of view, and as throwing some further light on the character and biography of Shelley, they are not without use; but they have little further interest.
The letters, twenty-five in number, extend from 1811 to 1821. They are written on questions of criticism, political opinion, and private circum- [p. 183→] stances; the most interesting of the latter being the Chancery suit respecting the education of his children. Mr. Browning has introduced the letters by a prefatory essay, in which he discusses the difference between the subjective and the objective; applies his ideas on those matters to Shelley’s case; and takes a very just yet charitable view of his life and opinions.
Reviewed:
Introductory Essay. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (RB), London: Edward Moxon, 1852.
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