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Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet
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Literary FiguresLetters & EssaysPoetry Criticism
ISBN13: 9781025982571
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet provides a profound look into the private life of one of England's most celebrated Romantic poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. This collection features a series of previously missing letters written by Shelley to his first wife, Harriet Westbrook, during the most turbulent and formative years of his life. These documents offer an unfiltered perspective on the emotional and philosophical shifts that occurred as Shelley navigated his complex relationships and his radical social ideals.
Edited and introduced with scholarly precision, the work explores the period surrounding Shelley's elopement with Mary Godwin and the eventual tragic breakdown of his marriage to Harriet. These letters serve as a vital primary source, shedding light on the poet's character, his evolving literary voice, and the personal crises that informed his greatest works. For historians and lovers of literature, Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet is more than a biographical curiosity; it is a compelling narrative of heartbreak, idealism, and the social constraints of the early 19th century. This volume remains an essential resource for understanding the human reality behind the legendary figure of the Romantic movement.
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