THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE POET SHELLEY
BY
EDWARD CARPENTER
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE POET SHELLEY
BY
GEORGE BARNEFIELD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
THE POET SHELLEY
BOOKS BY EDWARD CARPENTER
ANGELS’ WINGS: Essays on Art and its Relation to Life.
ART OF CREATION, THE: Essays on the Self and its Powers.
CHANTS OF LABOUR: a Songbook for the People.
CIVILIZATION: ITS CAUSE AND CURE. Essays on Modern Science.
DAYS WITH WALT WHITMAN.
THE DRAMA OF LOVE AND DEATH: a Study of human Evolution andTransfiguration.
ENGLAND’S IDEAL.
FROM ADAM’S PEAK TO ELEPHANTA: Sketches in Ceylon and India.
HEALING OF NATIONS, THE.
THE INTERMEDIATE SEX: a Study of some Transitional Types of Men andWomen.
INTERMEDIATE TYPES AMONG PRIMITIVE FOLK: a Study in SocialEvolution.
IOLAUS: an Anthology of Friendship.
LOVE’S COMING OF AGE: on the Relations of the Sexes.
MY DAYS AND DREAMS: being Autobiographical Notes with Portraits.
PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN CREEDS.
THE PROMISED LAND: a Drama of a People’s Deliverance. A new andrevised edition of “Moses.”
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY.
TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM.
A VISIT TO A GÑANI.
THE STORY OF EROS AND PSYCHE: together with SOME EARLY VERSES.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
THE POET SHELLEY
BY
EDWARD CARPENTER
AND
GEORGE BARNEFIELD
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE
POET SHELLEY
BY
EDWARD CARPENTER
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LATE studies in the Psychology of Sex have led to some interestingspeculations with regard to the poet Shelley; and it is with pleasurethat I write a few lines by way of introduction to the following paperby my friend, George Barnefield, which puts very clearly, as I think,some points in Shelley’s temperament which have hitherto been neglectedor misunderstood, and which call for renewed consideration.
Not having myself made a special study of the Modern Psychology, I donot pretend to certify to the absolute truth of the theories put forwardby Mr. Barnefield, but I do certainly think, after due consideration,that they are worthy of very careful study. The profound divergence ofShelley’s ideals from the accepted forms of our modern life is a subjectwhich, though it has always attracted attention, has never, I think,been adequately explained or even presented for{8} intelligentcomprehension; and it is only perhaps in late years that it has becomepossible, through the great advances that have been made inpsychological Science, to arrive at a valid understanding of the innernature of our greatest modern poet.