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9
The Journals of Mary Shelley
, I, 164.
10
Benjamin Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 29/12/1842. Willard Bissell Pope, ed.,
Invisible Friends: The Correspondence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842–1845,
p.16.
11
Nicholas Roe,
Fiery Heart
, p.292.
12
John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 08/10/1817.
Keats Letters
, I, 169–70.
13
John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 08/10/1817.
Keats
Letters
, I, 170.
14
Leigh Hunt,
Foliage
, p.cxxi.
15
Thomas Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, I, 298.
16
Edmund Blunden, ‘The Keats-Shelley Poetry Contests’, p.546.
17
John Keats to J. A. Hessey, 08/10/1818.
Keats
Letters
, I, 374.
18
John Keats to Leigh Hunt, 10/05/1817.
Keats Letters
, I, 139–40.
19
Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, 01/07/1817. David Cheney Collection, University of Toledo. Box 16, file 5.
20
Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 24/06/1817.
Recollections of Writers
, p.198.
21
The Examiner
, 486 (20/04/17), 241.
22
Elizabeth Kent,
Flora Domestica,
p.xix.
23
Thornton Hunt, ‘Shelley’,
Atlantic Monthly
, XI (1863), 188–9.
24
Memoirs of Shelley
, p.66.
25
The Examiner
, 493 (09/06/1817), 353.
26
Shelley,
Prose
, p.285.
27
Peacock,
Nightmare Abbey
, p.79.
28
See Jack Donovan, Headnote to
Laon and Cythna
, in
The Poems of Shelley
, ed. Kelvin Everest II, 20.
29
The Poems of Shelley
, II, 53. All quotations from
Laon and  Cythna
are taken from this edition.
30
The Poems of Shelley
, II, 47.
31
Horace Smith, ‘A Greybeard’s Recollections’, quoted in A. H. Beavan,
James and Horace Smith
, pp.171–2.
32
Horace Smith to Leigh Hunt, 03/01/1818.
My Leigh Hunt Library
, p.118.
33
John Hunt to Leigh Hunt, June 1817. Bodleian MS Shelley adds. d. 4, ff. 36–7.
34
Percy Shelley to Lord Byron, 24/09/1817.
Shelley and his Circle
, V, 291.
35
Mary Shelley to Percy Shelley, 07/10/1817.
MWS Letters
, I, 53.
36
Mary Shelley to Leigh and Marianne Hunt, 30/06/1817.
MWS Letters
, I, 38.
37
Mary Shelley to Percy Shelley, 24/09/1817.
MWS Letters
, I, 41.
38
Mary Shelley to Percy Shelley, 24/09/1817.
MWS Letters
, I, 41.
39
Mary Shelley to Percy Shelley, 28/09/1817.
MWS Letters
, I, 45.
40
Mary Shelley to Percy Shelley, 28/09/1817.
MWS Letters
, I, 45, 47.
41
Mary Shelley to Percy Shelley, 18/10/1817.
MWS Letters
, I, 57.
42
Mary Shelley to Percy Shelley, 28/09/1817, 26/09/1817, 16/10/817.
MWS Letters
, I, 47, 44, 56.
43
The Examiner
, 517 (23/11/1817), 738.
44
Shelley,
Prose
, pp.238–9.
45
Blackwood’s
(1817–1818), in
Romantics Reviewed
,
Part C
, I, 51, 87.
46
Blackwood’s
(1818–1819), in
Romantics Reviewed
,
Part C
, I, 51, 87.
47
Benjamin Haydon to Leigh Hunt, 31/12/1817. Luther Brewer Leigh Hunt Collection. MsLH416h7.
48
John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 08/10/1817.
Keats Letters
, I, 169.
49
Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron, 12/01/1818.
The Clairmont Correspondence
, I, 109–11.
50
This is how the occasion was remembered by Keats’s friend, Richard Woodhouse.  See Walter Jackson Bate,
John Keats
, p.300 and E. Pereira, ‘Sonnet contests and verse compliments in the Keats-Hunt Circle’, p.19.
51
Percy Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 22/03/1818.
Shelley and his Circle
, VI, 523.

Chapter Five: Counts and Cockneys

 
1
Foliage,
p.18.
2
Foliage
, p.18.
3
Jeffrey Cox, ‘Leigh Hunt’s
Foliage
: A Cockney Manifesto’, in
Leigh Hunt: Life, Poetics, Politics
, p.63.
4
Byron to John Murray, 24/11/1818.
Byron’s Letters and Journals
, VI, 83.
5
Benjamin Haydon to John Keats, 25/03/1818.
Keats Letters
, I, 259.
6
The Quarterly Review
(April 1818) in
The Romantics Reviewed: Part C
, II, 768.
7
John Keats to John Reynolds, 09/04/1818.
Keats
Letters
, I, 266.
8
John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 23/01/1818.
Keats
Letters
, I, 214.
9
John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 10/06/1818.
Keats
Letters
, I, 294.
10
John Keats to George and Georgina Keats, 16/12/1818.
Keats
Letters
, II, 8.
11
Percy Shelley to Leigh Hunt 22/03/1818.
Shelley and his Circle
, VI, 523.

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