The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . ticaldoctrines, and attempted so to do by appeals inprose essays to the people, exhorting them toclaim their rights; but he had now begunto feel that the time for action was not ripe inEngland, and that the pen was the only instru-ment wherewith to prepare the way for betterthings. In the scanty journals kept during thoseyears I find a record of the books that Shelleyread during several years. During the yearsof 1814 and 1815 the list is extensive. Itincludes, in Greek, Homer, Hesiod, Theoc-ritus, the histories of Thucydides and He-rodotus, and
The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . ticaldoctrines, and attempted so to do by appeals inprose essays to the people, exhorting them toclaim their rights; but he had now begunto feel that the time for action was not ripe inEngland, and that the pen was the only instru-ment wherewith to prepare the way for betterthings. In the scanty journals kept during thoseyears I find a record of the books that Shelleyread during several years. During the yearsof 1814 and 1815 the list is extensive. Itincludes, in Greek, Homer, Hesiod, Theoc-ritus, the histories of Thucydides and He-rodotus, and Diogenes Laertius. In Latin,Petronius, Suetonius, some of the works ofCicero, a large proportion of those of Seneca andLivy. In English, Miltons Poems, Words-worths Excursion, Southeys Madoc andThalaba, Locke On the Human Under-standing, Bacons Novum Organum. In 342 Note by Mrs. Shelley Italian, Ariosto, Tasso, and Alfieri. In French,the Reveries dun Solitaire of these may be added several modern booksof travels. He read few 343 Poems Written in 1816
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