Shelley: the Pursuit
“A Poem and a Wife: Queen Mab 1813 Shelley’s reveries were suddenly interrupted towards the end of March by the arrival of a note from Hogg, who had come to Dublin, and was impatiently awaiting them at Lawless’s. His old friend Hogg, and the lights of the metropolis, suddenly looked infinitely attractive. Leaving Eliza with Dan to follow at a more normal pace, Shelley and Harriet seized a chaise and horses and set out on the evening of the 28th. Without Eliza’s matronly presence it was quite lik...e a second elopement. Driving through the night, they reached Cork at 1 a.m. on the 29th,1 and without pausing for sleep took their seats on the Dublin mail that Tuesday morning. By 3 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon they had reached the city, only to find that Hogg had himself departed for London the previous day. Shelley roundly blamed ‘the inconceivable blindness and matter of fact stupidity of Lawless’ — ‘had you stayed one day longer, you would have heard the words of sincerity and friendship from my own lips’.2 It appears that in his anxiety to cover his tracks, Shelley asked Lawless to keep his Killarney address secret from all inquiries — and had forgotten or omitted to except Hogg.MoreLess
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