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67
. ibid., No. 668, p. 363.

68
. ibid., No. 715, p. 434.

69
.
Journal
, p. 149.

70
. ibid.

71
.
Claire
, p. 216.

72
.
Mary
, No. 116, p. 137.

73
.
Letters
, II, No. 615, p. 276.

74
. ibid., No. 618, p. 280.

75
. ibid., No. 592, p. 245 n. 7.

76
. ibid., No. 605, p. 261.

77
.
Journal
, p. 148. The title given is that of the first edition 1595; Mary used the better known ‘Defence of Poesy’ from which Shelley took his own title.

78
. Notebook, Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 8, pp. 71–7.

79
.
Letters
, II, No. 614, p. 275.

80
. Compare ���Essay on the Devil’,
Prose
, p. 267, with
Prose
, p. 290.

81
.
Letters
, II, No. 613, p. 273.

82
.
Prose
, p. 280.

83
. ibid., pp. 282–3.

84
. ibid., p. 286.

85
. ibid., p. 291.

86
. ibid., p. 295.

87
. ibid., p. 293.

88
.
Letters
, II, No. 615, pp. 276.

89
. ibid., No. 617, p. 278–9.

90
.
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters
, F. L. Jones (ed.), pp. 70–1.

91
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 663.

92
.
Gisborne
, pp. 70–1.

93
.
Letters
, II, No. 622, p. 285.

94
. ibid., No. 623, p. 286.

95
. ibid., No. 624, p. 288.

96
. ibid., No. 621, p. 284.

97
. See
Keats: the Critical Heritage
, ed. G. M. Matthews, 1971.

98
.
Letters
, II, No. 597, p. 252.

99
.
Lord Byron: Letters and Journals
, v, p. 266.

100
.
Journal
, p. 152.

101
.
Letters
, II, No. 620, pp. 281–2, n. 2.

102
. ibid., No. 608, p. 264.

103
.
Claire
, p. 223.

104
.
Letters
, II, No. 624, p. 288.

105
.
Claire
, p. 227.

106
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 8, pp. 133–7 rev.

107
. William Hazlitt in
Edinburgh Review
, July 1824.

108
.
Poetical Works
, p. 653.

109
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 8, pp. 42–3.

110
.
Journal
, p. 153.

111
.
Letters
, II, No. 626, p. 292.

112
.
Poetical Works
, p. 656.

113
.
Letters
, II, No. 626, p. 292.

114
.
Mary
, No. 123, p. 144.

115
.
Poetical Works
, p. 663.

116
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 664.

117
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 642–3.

Chapter 27, The Colony: 1821

1
.
Letters
, II, No. 625, p. 291.

2
. ibid., No. 626, p. 292.

3
.
Mary
, No. 126, p. 145.

4
.
Letters
, II, No. 630, p. 297.

5
.
Journal
, p. 155.

6
.
Letters
, II, No. 631, p. 297.

7
.
Poetical Works
, p. 721.

8
. ibid., p. 722.

9
.
Letters
, II, No. 622, p. 348 n. 1.

10
.
Verse and Prose from the Manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, ed. by Shelley-Rolls and Ingpen, 1934, PP. 37–43.

11
.
Letters
, II, No. 641, pp. 308–9.

12
.
Poetical Works
, p. 433.

13
. ibid., p. 435.

14
. ibid., p. 441.

15
. ibid., p. 663.

16
. ibid., p. 444.

17
.
Letters
, II, No. 639, p. 306.

18
. ibid., No. 642, p. 310.

19
.
Poetical Works
, p. 444.

20
. Printed by Lewis M. Schwartz in ‘Two New Reviews of “Queen Mab’” in
Keats-Shelley Journal
, 1970.

21
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, pp. 45–61.

22
.
Letters
, II, No. 632, p. 298.

23
. ibid., No. 633, pp. 300–1.

24
. ibid., No. 634, p. 302.

25
. ibid., Nos. 662 and 664.

26
.
Claire
, p. 242.

27
. ibid., p. 243.

28
. ibid.

29
.
Letters
, II, No. 650, p. 316.

30
.
Journal
, p. 159.

31
.
Claire
, p. 245.

32
.
Letters
, II, No. 649, p. 315.

33
. ibid., No. 647, p. 314.

34
. ibid., No. 649, p. 316.

35
. ibid., No. 650, p. 316.

36
. ibid., No. 654, p. 331.

37
. ibid., No. 651, p. 324.

38
. ibid., No. 650, p. 317.

39
. ibid., No. 656, p. 336.

40
. ibid., No. 651, p. 323.

41
. ibid., No. 609, p. 267

42
. ibid., No. 650, p. 319.

43
.
Mary
, No. 128, p. 149.

44
.
Letters
, II, Nos. 655 and 656, pp. 332–9.

45
. ibid., No. 661, p. 347.

46
. ibid., No. 652, pp. 325–7.

47
. ibid., No. 651, p. 323.

48
. ibid., No. 651, p. 321.

49
. ibid., No. 656, p. 335.

50
. ibid., No. 651, p. 324.

51
. ibid., No. 656, pp. 333–5.

52
.
Letters
, I, No. 265, pp. 401–3.

53
.
Letters
, II, No. 656, p. 339.

54
. ibid., No. 673, p. 368 n. 1.

55
.
Prose
, p. 274.

56
.
Poetical Works
, p. 586.

57
.
Claire
, p. 247.

58
.
Letters
, II, No. 659, p. 343.

59
. ibid., No. 660, p. 344.

60
. ibid., No. 660, pp. 345–6 n. 3.

61
. ibid., No. 663, p. 353.

62
. ibid., No. 663, pp. 353–4.

63
. ibid., No. 665, p. 356.

64
. ibid., No. 661, p. 347.

65
. ibid., No. 662, p. 351 n. 6.

66
. ibid., No. 662, p. 350.

67
.
Journal
, p. 160.

68
.
Claire
, p. 248.

69
. Edward Williams in his ‘Journal’ printed in
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters
, F. L. Jones (ed.), p. 103.

70
. Claire, p. 249.

71
.
Letters
, II, No. 665, p. 356.

72
.
Claire
, pp. 249–51.

73
.
Poetical Works
, p. 447.

74
. ibid., p. 468.

75
. ibid., p. 472.

76
. ibid., p. 479.

77
. ibid., p. 446.

78
. ibid., p. 448.

79
.
Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Vol. IV. ed. H. B. Forman, 1892.

80
.
Mary
. No. 129, p. 150.

81
.
Letters
, II, No. 666, p. 358.

82
. ibid., No. 668, pp. 362–3.

83
. ibid., No. 667, pp. 361–2.

84
. ibid., No. 667, p. 361 n. 5.

85
.
Poetical Works
, p. 654. I have adopted the MS reading in Shelley’s notebook, Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 9, p. 346–7 rev., for stanza 3, line 5. Shelley wrote the word ‘East’, and then uncertainly deleted in, with a single light stroke. But this word explains the context of the poem.

Chapter 28, The Byron Brigade: 1822

1
.
Claire
, p. 253.

2
. Williams in
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: Their Journals and Letters
, F. L. Jones (ed.), pp. 109–10. Henceforth given as Williams.

3
. ibid., p. 116.

4
. Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, p. 329.

5
. ibid.

6
.
Letters
, II, No. 676, p. 374.

7
.
Mary
, No. 129, p. 150.

8
. ibid., No. 130, p. 153.

9
. Williams, op. cit., p. 117.

10
.
Letters
, II, No. 673, p. 368.

11
.
Poetical Works
, p. 656

12
. Williams, op. cit., p. 118.

13
. Edward John Trelawny, ‘Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron’, in Humbert Wolfe,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, p. 180.

14
. Williams, op. cit., p. 120.

15
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 335.

16
. ibid., p. 331.

17
. Tom Medwin,
Conversations with Lord Byron
, 1824; ed. E. J. Lovell, Jr, 1966, p. 80.

18
. ibid., p. 38.

19
. Williams, op. cit., p. 119.

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