In Defence of Harriet Shelley (Annotated), by Mark Twain
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In Defence of Harriet Shelley (Annotated), by Mark Twain
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Includes: -Biography Description: I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley, if I had been justly dealt with.
In Defence of Harriet Shelley (Annotated), by Mark Twain- Published on: 2015-03-23
- Released on: 2015-03-23
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About the Author Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American humorist and writer, who is best known for his enduring novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has been called the Great American Novel. Raised in Hannibal, Missouri, Twain held a variety of jobs including typesetter, riverboat pilot, and miner before achieving nationwide attention for his work as a journalist with The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. He earned critical and popular praise for his wit and enjoyed a successful career as a public speaker in addition to his writing. Twain s works were remarkable for his ability to capture colloquial speech, although his adherence to the vernacular of the time has resulted in the suppression of his works by schools in modern times. Twain s birth in 1835 coincided with a visit by Halley s Comet, and Twain predicted, accurately, that he would go out with it as well, dying the day following the comet s return in 1910.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic example of Twain's biting, incisive sarcasm By DWD's Reviews Before reading this brilliant essay you must be familiar with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a 19th century English poet and perhaps, nowadays, most famous for being married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. His most famous bit of poetry in modern times is: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"Before reading this essay, read a short online biography about Mr. Shelley so that you can follow along with some knowledge of the basics. Twain's essay is actually a long review of a biography of Shelley by Edward Dowden: Life of Shelley, a book that is extremely dismissive of Harriet Shelley, Percy Shelley's first wife - the one he left pregnant and with a child at home so that he could run away to Europe with Mary.In no way is Twain's essay fair towards Percy Shelley - it does not try to be and I do not think that it should be. It's hard to defend a man who leaves his pregnant wife for a teenage girl. Twain rips this section of the biography apart bit by bit. Twain's sarcastic bite is on full display here - commentary that is very often laugh out loud funny and very tender towards Harriet Shelley.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Book Review by Twain By TS This is Mark Twain's review of a then-popular book which (apparently) eulogized and excused Shelley's abandonment of his first wife, Harriett. It's a good example of Twain's critical writing, and in some ways of his moralizing, but not as sharply incisive as his better-known criticism; fans of Twain's invective should start somewhere else (I'd recommend his essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences," a critique of the Leatherstocking books).Only recommended for Twain scholars, not general readers.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A gallant defense By Kindle Customer Like many satirists who take aim at the powerful, whether individuals, institutions, or societal conventions, Twain had a streak of gallantry towards the defenseless. That gallantry takes front and center in this review of Dowden's famous biography of Shelley, in which Shelley's biographer defended his hero's abandonment of his first wife by painting her as a greedy shrew who, to put it in contemporary terms, wasn't good enough for him.While Twain generally admired Shelley as an individual, he makes it clear that he considered Shelley's behavior towards his first wife indefensible and that Dowden's attempted defense of that behavior to be absolutely reprehensible. He carefully dissects each of Dowden's charges and even more so, Dowden's skill at using weighted language and speculation to condemn her while pretending to be neutral.Strongly recommended not just for Twain's admirers but for anybody studying rhetoric, political writing, or debate technique.
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