ABSTRACT
Shelley's great love poems were inspired by love repressions, and it will be the author's province to try to trace some of the finest poems in the English language to their sources. Shelley had written some of his earliest sad and lugubrious love poems to Harriet Grove in the volume Victor and Cazir, a copy of which book the poet presented to Harriet Grove. The Epipsychidion tells us of the poet's love adventures and gives us his beautiful dream of love. In Alastor he had depicted his longing for love; the poem was written in 1815 at the time he was living with Harriet Westbrook; it shows how lonely he felt and how he longed for love. Psychoanalytic methods applied to Shelley reveal him then, in his love poems and in lyrics which were not supposed to deal with love, as a chaste man with polygamous inclinations and married to a woman he did not love passionat.
