Shelley: The Pursuit (160 page)

58
.
Prose
, p. 76.

59
. ibid., p. 80.

60
. ibid.

61
.
Letters
, I, No. 199, p. 319.

62
. ibid., No. 202, p. 324.

63
. ibid.

64
. ibid., No. 170, p. 259.

65
. ibid., No. 200, p. 321.

66
. ibid.

67
.
Letters
, I, No. 200, p. 322.

68
. ibid., No. 202, p. 324.

69
. Rossetti, op. cit., p. 68.

70
. ibid.

71
. ibid., p. 78.

72
. ibid.

73
. ibid., p. 77.

74
. ibid., p. 78.

75
. ibid., p. 80.

76
. See Godwin’s cheerful letter to Mrs Godwin,
Letters
, I, No. 202, p. 326 n. 8. Godwin, as usual, only had half the story.

77
. ibid.

78
. ibid.

Chapter 7, The Tan-yr-allt Affair

1
. See the picturesque engraving in Elizabeth Beazley,
Madocks and the Wonder of Wales
, 1967, opposite p. 177. The village square has barely changed over the intervening 160 years, except for the parking lines. It is a minor Mecca for architectural students from the north-western universities, which would have pleased Madocks.

2
.
North Wales Gazette
, 1 October 1812, from the archives of the University of North Wales at Bangor.

3
. J. Girdlestone to John Williams, 17 September 1812. Breese, Jones and Casson; Box 168, letter 146, from County Record Office, Caernarvon.

4
.
Letters
, I, No. 205, p. 328.

5
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 202, p. 327 n. 8.

6
.
An Inquiry Concerning Political Justice
, ed. K.C. Carter, 1971. His text is from the third edition, 1798. Book III, Chapter 6, p. 120.

7
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 202, p. 327 n. 8.

8
. William Hazlitt,
The Spirit of the Age
, 1824–5; essay on ‘William Godwin’.

9
.
Letters
, I, No. 213, p. 338. To Fanny Godwin, 10 December 1812. This letter has some curious passages, in which one can sense that Fanny too was undergoing the Shelley treatment. For example, ‘I am one of those formidable & longclawed animals called a
Man
, & it is not until I have assured you that I am one of the most inoffensive of my species, that I live on vegetable food, & never bit since I was born that I venture to intrude myself on your attention.’ The letter deserves reading in full.

10
. See
Claire
, p. 19 n. 20. One of William’s lectures was on ‘The Influence of Governments on the Character of People’.

11
. ibid., pp. 16–18.

12
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 202, p. 327 n. 8.

13
.
Claire
, p. 15.

14
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 202, p. 327 n. 8. This is one of Professor Jones’s admirable and epic footnotes of 97 lines length.

15
. Dowden, op. cit., I, p. 304.

16
.
Letters
, I, No. 206, p. 330.

17
. ibid.

18
. Hogg, op. cit., I, pp. 364–5.

19
. ibid., p. 172.

20
.
Letters
, I, No. 210, p. 334.

21
. Cameron,
Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical
, p. 366 n. 61.

22
. ibid.

23
.
Letters
, I, No. 211, p. 336.

24
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 207, p. 331 n. 3.

25
.
Esdaile Notebook
, ed. Cameron, pp. 53–5.

26
.
Letters
, I, No. 223, p. 352.

27
. ibid., No. 210, p. 333.

Chapter 8, One Dark Night

1
.
Letters
, I, No. 214, p. 339.

2
. Beazley,
Madocks and the Wonder of Wales
, p. 197.

3
. ibid., p. 181.

4
. Robert Leeson in Beazley, p. 181.

5
. See H. M. Dowling, ‘The Attack at Tanyrallt’, in
Keats — Shelley Memorial Bulletin
, 1961.

6
. See the hitherto unpublished typescript ‘The Miltown Leesons’, 1963; BM. CUP. 504. E.15.

7
. Breese, Jones and Casson papers, Box. 168, letter 148, from County Record Office, Caernarvon.

8
. Harriet to Hookham,
Letters
, I, No. 225, p. 356 n. 2 (12 March, 1813).

9
. Beazley, op. cit.

10
. Dowling, op. cit.

11
.
Letters
, I, No. 215, p. 339.

12
.
Poetical Works
, p. 832.

13
. ibid.

14
.
Letters
, I, No. 211, p. 336.

15
. ibid., No. 216, p. 340.

16
. Godwin to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 216, p. 341 n. 3 (10 December 1812).

17
. ibid.

18
. See booklists in
Letters
, I, No. 216, No. 217, and No. 218 (17 to 24 December 1812).

19
.
Letters
, I, No. 221, p. 349.

20
. ibid., No. 222, p. 350.

21
.
Letters
, I, No. 220, p. 348.

22
. ibid. (In fact twelve degrees below freezing.)

23
. ibid., No. 223, p. 352.

24
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 221, p. 349 n. 2.

25
.
Letters
, I, No. 223, p. 351.

26
. ibid.

27
. ibid.

28
. ibid., No. 224, p. 354.

29
. ibid., No. 211, p. 335.

30
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 221, p. 350 n. 2.

31
.
Letters
, I, No. 219, p. 347.

32
. ibid., No. 223, p. 353.

33
. Breese, Jones and Casson papers; Box 168, letter 151, from County Record Office, Caernarvon.

34
. Harriet to Hookham,
Letters
, I, No. 223, p. 351 n. 2.

35
. Leeson’s letter to Shelley is in
Letters
, I, No. 227, pp. 357–8 n. 2.

36
. Harriet to Hookham,
Letters
, I, No. 225, pp. 355–6 n. 2.

37
.
Letters
, I, No. 219, p. 346.

38
. ibid., No. 224, p. 353.

39
. ibid.

40
.
North Wales Gazette
, 5 March 1813.

41
. Harriet to Hookham,
Letters
, I, No. 225, p. 355 n. 2. This letter is henceforth referred to as ‘Harriet’s account, March 1813’.

42
. Thornton Hunt, ‘Shelley, by One Who Knew Him’,
Atlantic Monthly
, February 1863.

43
.
Letters
, I, No. 225, p. 355.

44
. ibid. (Harriet’s postscript.)

45
. Leeson to Shelley,
Letters
, I, No. 227, p. 358 n. 2.

46
.
Letters
, I, No. 228, p. 359.

47
. ibid., No. 230, p. 361.

48
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 389.

49
. Harriet’s account, Dublin, 2 March 1813,
Letters
, I, No. 225, pp. 355–6 n. 2.

50
. Hogg, op. cit., I, p. 388.

51
. Peacock, p. 36.

52
. Hogg, I, p. 388.

53
. Hogg, I, p. 389.

54
.
Peacock: Memoirs, Essays and Reviews
, pp. 36–7.

55
.
Letters
, I, No. 228, p. 359.

56
. Breese, Jones and Casson papers; Box 168, letter 332, from County Record Office, Caernarvon. (In the manuscript, Madocks has inserted his comments on the motives for the attack on Shelley, as an afterthought, between the lines.)

57
. Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, p. 117.

58
. Medwin, op. cit., p. 116.

59
. Lady Jane Shelley, p. 56.

60
. Breese, Jones and Casson papers; Box 168, letter 152 (April 1813), from County Record Office, Caernarvon.

Chapter 9, A Poem and a Wife:
Queen Mab
1813

1
.
Letters
, I, No. 233, p. 364.

2
. ibid.

3
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 236, p. 368 n. 3.

4
.
Letters
, I, No. 234, p. 365.

5
. Harriet to Mrs Nugent,
Letters
, I, No. 236, p. 367 n. 3.

6
. ibid., p. 368.

7
.
Letters
, I, No. 223, p. 352.

8
. See the excellent appendix in White,
Shelley
, II, p. 408. Also Cameron,
Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical
, pp. 273–4.

9
.
Poetical Works
, p. 777.

10
. ibid., p. 773.

11
. ibid., p. 778.

12
. ibid., p. 801.

13
. ibid., p. 763.

14
. ibid., p. 782.

15
. This celebrated note on Free Love is in
Poetical Works
, p. 806–8; and
Prose
, pp. 115–17.

16
. ibid., p. 793.

17
. ibid., p. 794.

18
. ibid., pp. 797–8.

19
.
Pen Portraits and Reviews
, George Bernard Shaw, Constable, 1932. ‘Shaming the Devil about Shelley’, (1892), pp. 236–46.

20
.
Republican
, 27 December 1822. This and other contemporary newspaper articles and magazine reviews are usefully collected in
The Unextinguished Hearth
, ed. Newman Ivey White, New York, Octagon Books Inc., 1966, p. 97.

21
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, pp. 96–7.

22
. H. B. Forman,
The Vicissitudes of Queen Mab
, 1887. ‘Baldwin’ was probably Benbow himself: see BM 11644. e. 2. (i–2).

23
. ibid. For the 1832 edition, see BM 11660. a. 14. For the Chartist copies, see (1839) BM 11642. a. 70; and (1847) BM 11644. eee. 73.