In the Household of Percy Bysshe Shelley : Poems

Using a series of dramatic monologues and verse letters, Robert Cooperman explores the public and private personae (the truth beyond facts/that merely clutter) of the poet and political thinker Percy Bysshe Shelley. In poems rich with period detail and psychological insight, Cooperman reveals Shelley as a man torn by the desire for greatness, the desire for love, and the desire to be free. He portrays the private Shelley, driven to find a soul-mate and to espouse the idea of free love in a mercantile society, yet an idealist who never quite realised that his actions could have disastrous consequences for those he loved. Tom Medwin Recalls His Cousein Percy Shelley At Syon House Academy -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Remembers Trying To Raise The Devil While At Eton -- Sir Timoth Shelly Lectures His Son, Prcy, Before The Latter Goes Off To Oxford -- The Reverend Jocelyn Wlaker, Fellow Of New College, Osford, Explains The Expulsion Of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Lady Shelley Replies To Her Son's Accusations Of Adultery -- Thomas Jefferson Hogg Rationalizes His Failed Seduction Of Harriet Westbrook Shelley -- Thomas Jefferson Hogg On The Stage From Edinburgh With Shelley And Harriet -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Writes To William Godwin From Dublin -- John Philpot Curran Comments On Shelley's Pamphlet: An Address To The Irish People -- Miss Eliza Hitchener Leaves The Household Of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, After The Night Attack, Tremadoc, Wales -- The Honourable Robert Leeson Answers The Charges Of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Jack Tanner, After His Attack On Shelley's House, Tremadoc --^ Thomas Love Peacock On Shelley's Decamping For Switzerland With The Godwin Sisters -- Percy Bysshe Shelley And The Godwin Sisters Leave Lucerne For London -- Captain Horatio Malone Sits With The Godwin Sisters, Waiting To Be Paid By Shelley For Ferrying Them To England -- William Godwin Writes To A Friend, Upon His Daughter Mary's Elopment With Percy Bysshe Shelley --mary Godwin Is Confined To Bed During Her First Pregnancy -- Claire Clairmont In The Household Of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley After The Death Of His Grandfather -- Harriet Westbrook Shelley On The Bank Of The Serpentine, November, 1816 -- Eliza Westbrook, After The Suicide Of Her Sister, Harriet Westbrook Shelley -- Byron Comes To Terms With Shelley Concerning Claire Clairmont -- Claire Clairmont Accompanies Shelley To The Execution Of Seamn John Cashman, After The Spa Fields Riots -- Shelley Takes Leave Of England Forever -- Mary Shelley, The Night Frankenstein Was Born --^ A Military Gentleman Accosts Percy Bysshe Shelley In The Rome Poste Restante -- A Calabrian Priest Shares A Coach With Percy Bysshe Shelley And A Lombard Merchant -- Mary Shelley, Upon The Death Of Her Daughter Clara -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, After The Death Of His Daughter Clara. Charles Macfarlane Remembers Accompanying The Shelleys To The Etruscan Ruins At Paestrum -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, At The Ruins Of The Baths Of Caracalla -- Claire Clairmont Attends Mary Shelley After The Death Of Her Son William -- Sophia Stacey Is Escorted Through The Uffizi Gallery By Shelley -- Henry Reveley, Mechanical Engineer, Sponsored By Shelley -- Tom Medwin Attempts Animal Magnetism To Alleviate Shelley's Nephritis -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Considers His Father-in-law William Godwin's Demands For More Moeny -- Mary Shelley At San Giuliano, 1820 -- Mary Shelley At A Performance By Tomasso Sgnicci: Pisa -- Shelley Goes Practice Shooting With Byron -- Mary Shelley Learns Of Her Husband's Illegitimate Child By Their Maid Elise -- From England, Leigh Hunt Writes To Shelley In Italy -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Desires To Sail To The Near East -- Claire Clairmont Clelbrates Shelley's 29th Birthday: Livorno, 3 August 1821 -- Shelley, Upon The Pirated Publication Of Queen Mab, 1821 -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Is Shown By Lord Byron The Fifth Canto Of Don Juan: Ravenna, 1821 -- From Italy, Shelley Writes To Peacock About The Cato Street Affair -- Lord Byron Refuses Claire Clairmont Custody Of Their Illegitimate Daughter -- Claire Clairmont, After The Death Of Her Daughter Allegra At The Convent Bagnacavallo -- Shelley Sees Spirits: Casa Magni, Bay Of Spezia, June, 1822 -- Captain Lorenzo Pola, After His Offer Of Aid Was Refused By Shelley, Aboard The Don Juan, 8 July 1822 -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Aboard The Don Juan, 8 July 1822 -- Cpatin Edward Trelawny At The Cremation Of Shelley's Remains -- Lord Byron, After Shelley Drowns, Remembers Their Sailing On Lake Geneva -- Mary Shelley Receives Her Dead Husband's Heart From Captain Trelawny -- Edward Trelawny, After Mary Shelley Denies Him Permission To Write A Biography Of Her Late Husband. By Robert Cooperman. Includes Bibliographical References. Using a series of dramatic monologues and verse letters, this text explores the public and private personae of the poet and political thinker Percy Bysshe Shelley. Cooperman reveals Shelley as a man torn by the desire for greatness, the desire for love and the desire to be free.