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“Not One of Us” ** A review of SHELLEY; HIS LIFE AND WORK, by Walter Edwin Peck, October 1927
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“Not One of Us” ** A review of SHELLEY; HIS LIFE AND WORK, by Walter Edwin Peck, October 1927
Professor Peck does not apologize for writing a new life of Shelley, nor does he give any reason for doing what has been so thoroughly1 done already, nor are the new documents that have come into his hands of any great importance. And yet nobody is going to complain that here are two more thick, illustrated2, careful and conscientious3 volumes devoted4 to the retelling of a story which everyone knows by heart. There are some stories which have to be retold by each generation, not that we have anything new to add to them, but because of some queer quality in them which makes them not only Shelley’s story but our own. Eminent5 and durable6 they stand on the skyline, a mark past which we sail, which moves as we move and yet remains7 the same.
Many such changes of orientation8 toward Shelley have been recorded. In his own lifetime all except five people looked upon him, Shelley said, “as a rare prodigy9 of crime and pollution, whose look even might infect.” Sixty years later he was canonized by Edward Dowden. By Matthew Arnold he was again reduced to the ordinary human scale. How many biographers and essayists have since absolved10 him or sentenced him, it is impossible to say. And now comes our turn to make up our minds what manner of man Shelley was; so that we read Professor Peck’s volumes, not to find out new facts, but to get Shelley more sharply outlined against the shifting image of ourselves.
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