Preface to Shelley

Patricia Hodgart was a scholar of Girton College, Cambridge, and subsequently taught for several colleges in the university. For a considerable time she has been Chief Examiner in the Romantic period with the Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate. Together with Theodore Redpath she compiled Romantic Perspectives (Harrap, 1964).

• Introduction, Patricia Hodgart; Part one The Writer and his Setting; Chapter 102 Family trees, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 103 Chronological table, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 1 Shelley’s earlyThe making of a gentleman, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 3 The historical background, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 4 Shelley’s philosophical beliefs, Patricia Hodgart; Part two Critical Survey; Chapter 5 The writer and his craft, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 6 A critical examination of some poetry, Patricia Hodgart; Part three Reference Section; Chapter 104 The Shelley circle: family and friends, Patricia Hodgart; Chapter 105 The traveller: a Shelley gazetteer, Patricia Hodgart; further-reading Further reading, Patricia Hodgart;