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Authors: Richard Holmes
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53
.
Journal
, p. 61.
54
.
Letters
, I, No. 361, p. 504.
55
. Ibid., No. 363, p. 508.
Chapter 14, The Suicides: London 1816
1
.
Poetical Works
, p. 546.
2
.
Journal
, p. 69.
3
.
Edinburgh Review
, XXVIII, 1816.
4
.
Letters
, I, No. 370, p. 513.
5
. Peck,
Shelley: His Life and Work
, II, p. 437.
6
.
Letters
, I, No. 373, p. 516.
7
. ibid., p. 518.
8
. ibid., p. 517.
9
.
Mary
, No. 20, p. 14.
10
.
Letters
, I, No. 374, p. 520.
11
. ibid., p. 521.
12
. ibid., p. 520 n. 1.
13
. ibid., No. 376, pp. 522–3.
14
.
Letters
, I, No. 378, pp. 524–5.
15
. Claire to Trelawney in a long letter dated 30 August to 21 September 1878. Pforzheimer, Vol. IV, pp. 787–8.
16
.
Letters
, I, No. 381, p. 530.
17
.
Peacock: Memoirs, Letters and Reviews
, pp. 88–9.
18
.
Poetical Works
, p. 418.
19
. A. H. Beaven,
J. & H. Smith
, 1899, pp. 136ff.
20
.
The Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon
ed. W. B. Pope, 1960, Vol. II, 23 January 1817.
21
.
Peter Bell the Third, Poetical Works
, p. 359. Shelley’s own footnote reads: ‘See [Wordsworth’s] description of the beautiful colours produced during the agonizing death of a number of trout . . . [
The Excursion
] contains curious evidence of the gradual hardening of a strong but circumscribed sensibility, of the perversion of a penetrating but panic-stricken understanding.’
22
.
Haydon
, op. cit., 5 August 1822.
23
.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon
, 1846.
24
. John Keats to Leigh Hunt, 10 May 1817.
Letters of John Keats
, Robert Gittings (ed.), Oxford, 1970, p. 11.
25
. John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 8 October 1817. Gittings, op. cit., p. 27.
26
. John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 23 January 1818. Gittings, op. cit., p. 56.
27
.
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt
, A.B. Waller (ed.), Dent, 1903. ‘On Paradox and Commonplace’, Vol. VI, pp. 48–9.
28
. Thornton Hunt in
Atlantic Monthly
, February 1863.
29
. R.J. White,
Waterloo to Peterloo
, 1957, pp. 160–1.
30
.
Mary
, No. 24, pp. 22–4.
31
. This description of Cashman’s execution was assembled from three contemporary newspaper reports by E. P. Thompson,
The Making of the English Working Class
, p. 664.
32
. Samuel Bamford,
Passages in the Life of a Radical
, 1841.
33
.
Prose
, pp. 161–2.
34
. H. B. Forman,
The Vicissitudes of Queen Mab
, 1887.
Chapter 15, The Garden Days: Marlow 1817
1
. Thornton Hunt in
Atlantic Monthly
, February 1863.
2
.
Mary
, No. 28, p. 24.
3
.
Letters
, I, No. 395. pp. 539–40.
4
. Bod. MSS. Shelley Adds. e. 10.
5
.
Poetical Works
, p. 551.
6
.
Letters
, I, No. 398, pp. 542–3.
7
.
Poetical Works
, p. 539.
8
. Bod. MSS. Shelley e. 4.
Poetical Works
, p. 549.
9
.
Letters
, I, No. 399, p. 543.
10
. Elizabeth Kent,
Flora Domestica
, 1831, p. XIX.
11
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 157.
12
. Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, pp. 123–4. Dowden’s information was collected verbatim from Polly Rose in old age, and I have used it selectively, leaving out the more obvious Victorian filigree about Shelley’s ‘eyes like a deer’, etc.
13
. Miss Rose in a letter to Lady Shelley, Dowden, op. cit., II, p. 120.
14
. ibid.
15
. Dowden, op. cit., II, p. 123.
16
. A. H. Beaven,
J. & H. Smith
, 1899, p. 171.
17
.
Letters
, I, No. 405, p. 551.
18
.
The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock
, David Garnett (ed.), 1970, Vol. 1,
Nightmare Abbey
, Ch. 2.
19
. ibid.
20
.
Letters
, II, No. 501, p. 98.
21
. David Garnett (ed.), op. cit.,
Nightmare Abbey
, Ch. 10.
22
.
Letters
, I, No. 409, p. 553.
23
.
Mary
, No. 44, p. 42.
24
.
Letters
, I, No. 411, p. 557.
25
.
Poetical Works
, p. 37.
26
.
Letters
, I, No. 411, p. 557.
27
.
Mary
, No. 35, p. 33.
28
.
Mary
, No. 35, pp. 33–4.
29
. ibid., No. 37, p. 37.
30
.
Letters
, I, No. 415, pp. 560–1.
31
.
Mary
, No. 39, p. 41
32
. Ingpen,
Shelley in England
, pp. 523–6.
33
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 178–9.
34
.
Letters
, I, No. 417, p. 564.
35
.
Poetical Works
, p. 886.
36
.
Journal
, p. 85.
37
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 34–5.
38
. ibid., p. 32.
39
. ibid., pp. 33–4.
40
.
The Diary of Henry Crabbe Robinson
, ed. Thomas Sadler, 1869, Vol. II, pp. 67–8.
41
. E. P. Thompson,
The Making of the English Working Class
, p. 727.
42
. The Hammonds quoted in E. P. Thompson, op. cit., p. 730.
43
.
Letters
, I, No. 420, p. 566.
44
.
Prose
, p. 168.
45
. ibid., p. 167.
46
. ibid., pp. 166–7.
47
. ibid., pp. 168–9.
48
.
Letters
, I, No. 431, p. 575 n. 2.
49
.
Letters
, I, No. 439, p. 586, n. 1.
50
. ibid., No. 441, pp. 587–8.
51
. ibid., No. 423, p. 568.
52
. ibid., No. 426, p. 569.
53
. ibid., No. 427, p. 571.
54
. ibid., No. 432, pp. 577–8.
55
. ibid., No. 433, pp. 579–80.
56
.
Journal
, p. 87.
57
.
Letters
, I, No. 435, p. 582.
58
.
Peacock: Memoirs, Letters and Reviews
, p. 89.
59
.
Letters
, I, No. 436, p. 584.
60
. ibid., No. 429, pp. 572–3.
61
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 19. There is also an earlier reference in the MS to ‘William Godwin’; unlike the rest of the poem which appears in a separate notebook the first two cantos are written neatly in ink; Shelley later used much of the historical material as the basis for his ‘Ode to Liberty’ of 1820.
62
. The poem is printed in
Poetical Works
, pp. 31–156,
Revolt of Islam
II, stanza 23.
63
. ibid., II, stanza 43.
64
. ibid., V, stanza 53.
65
. ibid., VI, stanzas 16–17.
66
. ibid., VI, stanzas 33–6; 38.
67
. ibid., IX, stanzas 24–5.
68
. ibid., X, stanzas 14–15.
69
. ibid., X, stanzas 18–19.
70
. ibid., X, stanzas 21–2.
71
.
Poetical Works
, p. 887.
72
.
The Revolt of Islam
, XII, stanza 5.
73
. ibid., XII, stanza 13.
74
.
The Purgatory of Suicides
, Bk II, stanza 7 in Thomas Cooper,
Poetical Works
, 1877.
75
. See Toller:
Transfiguration
, 1919, and
Masses and Man
, 1920; Also Kaiser’s trilogy,
Gas
, 1919–20. Toller in fact wrote one play actually about the English Luddites of 1812,
Die Maschinenstürmer
(
The Machine Wreckers
).
76
.
Letters
, I, No. 448, p. 593.
77
. ibid., No. 450, p. 594.
78
. ibid., No. 453, p. 596.
79
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, p. 123.
80
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, p. 125.
81
. ibid.
82
. ibid., p. 128.
83
.
Journal
, p. 91.
84
.
Letters
, I, No. 436, p. 584.
85
. ibid., No. 436, ibid.
86
. ibid., No. 429, p. 573.
87
.
Poetical Works
, p. 161.
88
. ibid.
89
.
Claire
, p. 80.
90
.
Letters
, I, No. 454, p. 598.
91
. Edmund Blunden,
Shelley: A Life Story
, 1946, p. 173.
92
.
Claire
, p. 83.
93
. ibid., p. 85.
94
. Hogg to J.F. Newton in
New Shelley Letters
, p. 107.
95
. Dowden, op. cit., II, p. 182.
96
. Mary to Hogg, 3 October 1824,
New Shelley Letters
, p. 151.
97
.
Poetical Works
, p. 552.
98
. ibid., p. 550. ‘Ozymandias’ was first published in Hunt’s
Examiner
, January 1818.
