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**JeffStewart** · 06-16-2008, 11:08 PM

podalangai, I don't quite get what you mean by not being able to agree to Shelley's attitude to life. Please elaborate on your opinion!

He had strong ideas about things such as free love, with which I don't agree, but which were an intrinsic component of his philosophy of what an ideal life should be like.

A character in one of Aldous Huxley's books calls Shelley a cross between a fairy and a white slug (Huxley didn't quite go that far himself - he was parodying some of Shelley's critics). I think I personally, like Huxley, love the intensity of Shelley's vision of what he called "intellectual beauty", but I don't always like the results of applying it in the real world.

06-16-2008, 11:08 PM	#35
JeffStewart Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 363 Senior Member	podalangai, I don't quite get what you mean by not being able to agree to Shelley's attitude to life. Please elaborate on your opinion! He had strong ideas about things such as free love, with which I don't agree, but which were an intrinsic component of his philosophy of what an ideal life should be like. A character in one of Aldous Huxley's books calls Shelley a cross between a fairy and a white slug (Huxley didn't quite go that far himself - he was parodying some of Shelley's critics). I think I personally, like Huxley, love the intensity of Shelley's vision of what he called "intellectual beauty", but I don't always like the results of applying it in the real world.
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