Trelawny's 'Records' in Messrs. Routledge's "New Universal
Library." But both these books, while they give incomparably
vivid pictures of the poet, are rambling and unconventional,
and should be supplemented by Professor Dowden's 'Life of
Shelley' (2 vols., 1886), which will always remain the standard
biography. Of other recent lives, Mr. A. Clutton-Brock's
'Shelley: the Man and the Poet' (1910) may be recommended.

Of the innumerable critical estimates of Shelley and his place
in literature, the most noteworthy are perhaps Matthew Arnold's
Essay in his 'Essays in Criticism', and Francis Thompson's
'Shelley' (1909). Vol. iv. "Naturalism in England," of Dr.
George Brandes' 'Main Currents in Nineteenth Century
Literature' (1905), may be read with interest, though it is not
very reliable; and Prof. Oliver Elton's 'A Survey of English
Literature', 1780-1830 (1912), should be consulted.

Whoever wishes to follow the fortunes, after the fire of their
lives was extinguished by Shelley's death, of Mary Shelley,
Claire Clairmont, and the rest, should read, besides Trelawny's
'Records' already mentioned, 'The Life and Letters of Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley', by Mrs. Julian Marshall (2 vols.,
1889), and 'The Letters of E. J. Trelawny_, edited by Mr. H.
Buxton Forman (1910).