ABSTRACT
Shelley, Posthumous Poems (1824); review by? Albany Fonblanque, Examiner, June 13, 1824, p. 370. The reviewer’s connecting of Shelley and Lycidas relates, of course, to the fact that Shelley, like Milton’s Edward King, drowned. The image of the dead poet as a star, beyond the reach of earthly calumny, varies the final imagery of Shelley’s Adonais. The circumstances that prevented Mary Shelley from writing a biography of her husband (and from publishing his prose until 1840) were threats by Sir Timothy Shelley to cut off the allowance that he paid for the care of his grandson, Percy Florence Shelley.
