By William Golding, Harold Bloom
A set of serious essays in regards to the works of the English Romantic author.
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Shelley was fond of quoting a passage from Richard the Second, in the commencement of which the king, in the indulgence of his misery, exclaims— For Heaven’s sake! let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings. Shelley, who had been moved into the ebullition by something objectionable which he thought he saw in the face of our companion, startled her into a 20 Percy Shelley look of the most ludicrous astonishment, by suddenly calling this passage to mind, and, in his enthusiastic tone of voice, addressing me by name with the first two lines.
I inquired. ’ We returned to Oxford, and made our way by back streets to our College. As we entered the gates, the officious scout remarked with astonishment Shelley’s strange spenser, and asked for the skirts, that he might instantly carry the wreck to the tailor. ’ The scout looked up at the clock, at Shelley, and through the gate into the street as it were at the same moment and with one eager glance, and would 26 Percy Shelley have run blindly in quest of them, but I drew the skirts from my pocket, and unfolded them, and he followed us to Shelley’s rooms.
Shelley’s thirst for knowledge was unquenchable. He set to work on a book, or a pyramid of books; his eyes glistening with an energy as fierce as that of the most sordid gold-digger who works at a rock of quartz, crushing his way through all impediments, no grain of the pure ore escaping his eager scrutiny. I called on him one morning at ten, he was in his study with a German folio open, resting on the broad marble mantelpiece, over an old-fashioned fireplace, and with a dictionary in his hand.