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"The fascination with fire-arms was one of many elements in Shelley's character which Hogg, a very down-to-earth personality despite all his masterly sarcasms, could never really account for. Another was Shelley's almost maniac disregard, on certain occasions, for the commonplace decencies of public normal public behaviour, as the time when he seized a baby out of its mother's arms while crossing Magdalen Bridge and began earnestly to question it about the nature of its Platonic pre-existence so that he might prove a point in an argument he was having with Hogg concerning metempsychosis."

January82012

Shelley’s height

Coleridge and Wordsworth were both approximately 5’9”. Keats was 5’1”. Byron was 5’11”. Shelley was “tall”, but how tall? According to one random website he was also 5’11”, but I’ve always been under the impression that he was taller. Perhaps because so many people have commented on Shelley’s tallness, compared to Byron. So presumably he was taller than Byron?

I know this may not seem hugely important, but it matters to me (and book-of-flights!), so if any of you are ever reading a book Shelley that says anything about his height (anything more specific than “he was tall”), please let me know!

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