Excerpt from Shelley's Principles: Has Time Refuted or Confirmed Them?The following essay on Shelley's Principles, which has been read, under a different title, at one of the Shelley Society's meetings, was indirectly the outcome of a friendly challenge from Professor Dowden, to the effect that he, as a lover of Shelley, should like to see someone who places him in the first rank of poets, other than lyrical, show where he is original in his body of thought.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.