Note-Book of the Shelley Society, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Note-Book of the Shelley Society, Vol. 1 The Rev. Stopford Brooke, in stating the objects of the Society, said that the humour of about a hundred persons might alone be considered a good reason for the existence of any Society whatever, but the founders of the Shelley Society desired to connect together all that would throw light on the poets personality and his work, to ascertain the truth about him, to issue reprints, and above all to do something to further the objects of Shelley´s life and work, and perhaps to better understand and love a genius which was ignored and abused in his own time, but which had risen from the grave into which the critics had trampled it to live in the hearts of men. There are those, however, the lecturer continued, who do not love Shelley´s poetry. Mr. Matthew Arnold finds in it an incurable want of sound subject-matter, and consequently a large element of unsubstantially. He considers a volume of selections from Wordsworth or Byron of far more value than a similar selection from Shelley. Others are of opinion that the comparison of such selections really proves Mr. Arnold to be in the wrong. Byron is inferior to Shelley in what Mr. Arnold calls true seriousness of substance and manner, as well as in felicity of diction. As a serious attempt to grasp the problem of good and evil, Byron´s "Cain" cannot bear comparison with "Prometheus Unbound" Byron was rarely true to himself; and this lack of sincerity will always prevent the world from loving him as it loves Shelley. The high praise which Shelley gave to Byron did not imply that he had not detected the weaknesses of Byron´s work. Shelley´s remark that Cain was the finest thing in poetry since "Paradise Regained" evinces his hatred of orthodox religion rather than his critical acumen. He had no such unreserved opinion as Mr. Arnold imagines about Byron´s work. He by no means approved of Byron´s poetic method, and was indignant with the spirit that animated "Childe Harold," regarding the life and temper of Byron at the time of which he wrote as an insane and self-willed folly, in which he deliberately hardened himself. In short, Shelley did not consider Byron possessed the qualities which make a poet consistently great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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