Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — Shelley as a Boy. [ARTICLE]

Shelley as a Boy.

Hors is a glimpse of Shelley offered by Andrew Lang: “It seems almost Incredible, but It Is true, that I once knew a man who was st Eton with Shelley, who left In 1810. This was Mr. Hammond, a senior fellow of Merton College, when I was an Inquiring junior. About 1870 he told me all that I could extract from him about the poet. ‘Shelley was not a clever boy; he never was sent up for good,’ which means, I conceive, that he never did s remarkable exercise in Latin verse. Mr. Hammond added that Shelley bad a habit whence was walking alone of suddenly breaking into a sprint at a hundred yaTds pace. That was all.”