Chapter 1: | Eliot and Shelley: Influence, Renunciation, and Accommodation |
Chapter One
Eliot and Shelley: Influence, Renunciation, and Accommodation
Shelley drove Eliot to frenzy. His reactions show a kind of schizophrenia, alternately belittling and praising Shelley for the same trait. […] These alternations suggest a mind divided against itself, at once enormously susceptible to Shelley and distrustful of that very susceptibility.
– George Bornstein1