THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE POET SHELLEY.

London: George Allen & Unwin (1925). First edition. Spine slightly faded, else nearly fine. First edition of these two complementary studies of Shelley, both focusing on his psychosexual nature. Carpenter, in the first part of the book, is “impelled to conclude that the poet’s nature was really intermediate (or double) in character — INTERMEDIATE as between the masculine and feminine or DOUBLE as having that twofold outlook upon the world. The time has gone by when a remark of this kind could be interpreted as derogatory.” In the second part, Barnefield brings forward “considerable positive evidence, from Shelley’s life and writings, to show that in him was a strangely double nature, and that there was certainly a homosexual COMPONENT in his make-up.”