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Shelley’s friend Hogg tells us that love was the root and basis of Shelley’s nature. The love first developed as domestic affection next as friendship, then as a youth’s passion, and then it began to shine with steady luster as an all embracing devotion to his fellowmen. He had an intense and glowing passion of unselfishness, which throughout his life led him to find his strongest interests in the joys and sorrows of his fellow creatures, which inflamed his imagination with visions of his fellow creatures, which inflamed his imagination with visions of humanity made perfect and which filled his days with sweet deeds of unremembered charities. He ran after women, every time thinking that he had come across a perfect model of love. but as soon as the cold finger of reality touched them, they were reduced to the most ordinary women of flesh and blood, not dream-brides of his heart . As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement, and the vigor of his genius almost celestial, so were the purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous. I never know any one so prone to admire as he was, in whom the principle of veneration was so strong. I could never discern in him any more than two fixed principles. The first was a strong irresponsible love of liberty and the second was an equally ardent love of toleration of all opinions. Like Plato, Shelley believed in cosmic love. In ‘Epipsychidion’ we have Shelley fullest expression of Platonic theory of love. Although Shelley belongs to the class of aristocracy but he doesn’t inherit the defiant waywardness of his class. He doesn’t possess in him the seeds of empty pride and defiant high-headedness along with an utter lack of human sympathy and general goodwill as we generally find in the children of aristocratic families whereas Keats belongs to the middle class family.

Love as the Root & Basis of Shelley’s Nature