Shelley was a poet of a true poetic mind, depressed, brooding and suicidal
Byron was a Lord. A poet. Masculine, free willed. Depressed, Yes, but
all that it was required for Byron was a woman, even a maid servant, will do,
was enough, for him to sublimate his idea of life.
Mary Shelley was a god send for him. For Byron, when they met in Italy. Bright, intellectual willing to carry his Childe.
Byron and Shelley’s wife Mary Shelley were good friends.
While Mary was a little moralistic, Byron had no such qualms. The Chronology of
Percy Byshe Shelley’s poetry shows marked change in his approach to poetry by
the time he comes across Byron.
Lord.
Prometheus Unbound in fact is but ‘Ode to Skylark’ rewritten
with a biblical flourish and touché.
It’s Moses like feel and its Miltonian
fight with his creators, its Nietzschean like philosophy and Shelley’s first
recorded rebellion – this time showcased against Zeus & Co. for the Theft
of Fire - is a collective effect of Mary Shelley and Byron working in
Collaboration with Shelley.
Shelley as a person was more a pure poet, lost in its
metaphorical ‘naiveness’, it was Mary and Byron who brought him down to the
Byzantian life.
Don Juan turned, churned, returned.
Childe Harold rejuvenated.
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