Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Trelawny Edward John

Author:Trelawny, Edward John [Trelawny, Edward John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Historical, History, Epistolary, Diary
ISBN: 9780141392790
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

That was an insurmountable impediment to confidential intercourse with her husband.

Whenever the Poet wrote on the subject of love, however abstract or ideal, she misconstrued this, and considered it treason to herself. She was mournful and desponding in solitude, and panting for society. She used every effort to make Shelley conventional, and to get him to do as others did; her moaning and complaining grieved him, and her society was no solace. The Poet never sought acquaintance with others: very few suited him: his life was entirely solitary, almost without a parallel.

In his inexhaustible thirst for knowledge, chemical and medical books had not escaped him; and seeking to allay the perturbation of his seething brain he had from early life tampered with opiates. He used them in the shape of laudanum. He had always a bottle of that, which he endeavoured to conceal from everyone, disliking to be remonstrated with. He used it with caution at first, but, in times of extreme dejection or in paroxysms of passion, was heedless, and on more than one occasion his life was only preserved by remedies to counteract the poison. Whether he intended to destroy himself or no, is not clear. He differed from other writers who speak of Death as a malignant deity. He writes –

‘She met me, stranger, upon life’s rough way,

And lured me towards Sweet Death.’

Epipsychidion.

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