WorkPercy Bysshe Shelley

Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments

Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (ed. Mary Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

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Documented 1840

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist2records
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1840—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have been reading in Shelley's journals how he continued to suffer in Italy and he was affected very much as I am.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Hudspeth identified: Mary Shelley's Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (London: Moxon, 1840) contained Shelley's journals, his Defence of Poetry, and his letters.

1840—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“As to what you say of Shelley, it is true that the unhappy influences of early education prevented his ever attaining clear views of God, life, and the soul.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.