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Excerpt from Shelley: The Man and the Poet Byron, conversing with Shelley in literary mood admitted frankly that until that time he had written for women readers only, but that when he Should have reached the age of forty he intended to change his tactics, and to Show man kind What he was capable of doing. Shelley replied: Do it at once; write nothing but with conviction of its truth. You should teach the wise, not learn from the foolish. Time will reverse the verdict of the crowd. Contemporary criticism merely represents the amount of igno rance that must be encountered by genius. Time has proved Shelley to 'be in the right; the verdict of the crowd has been reversed, and Shelley's poetry will endure while the English language lasts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.