Shelley: The Pursuit (165 page)

28
. These 3 documents first discovered and printed by N.I. White,
Shelley
, II, Appendix VII, pp. 546–50, with translations. White, who must take all the credit for this brilliant piece of research, discusses the implications in Chapter 20, and draws conclusions with which I do not agree.

29
.
Journal
, p. 114.

30
. ibid., p. 116.

31
. Abinger MS (reel 5); and printed without the moon in
Journal
, p. 134.

32
. Hoppner to Byron,
Lord Byron’s Correspondence
, John Murray (ed.). Murray, 1922, II, pp. 179–83 (1922); and
Claire
, pp. 277–9, who speaks of Elise with a Miss Fairhill in March 1822.

33
.
Lord Byron: Selected Prose
, ed. Peter Gunn, 1972, p. 354.

34
.
Lord Byron’s Correspondence
, II, pp. 179–83.

35
.
Lord Byron: Selected Prose
, p. 355.

36
.
Letters
, II, No. 488, p. 62.

37
.
Mary
, No. 128, p. 148.

38
.
Mary
, No. 127, p. 147.

39
.
Journal
, p. 114.

40
.
Mary
, No. 128, p. 148.

41
. ibid.

42
.
Letters
, II, No. 491, p. 76.

43
. ibid.

44
.
Letters
, II, No. 571, p. 208.

45
.
Letters
, II, No. 553, p. 175.

46
.
Mary
, No. 128, p. 148.

47
.
Claire
, p. 274–83, February and March, 1822.

48
.
Letters
, II, No. 491, p. 75.

49
. ibid., p. 71.

50
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 571–2. In the penultimate line, I have adopted the Harvard MS Notebook reading, and that of the first printing of 1832. The Oxford edition gives, ‘and Hell be thy guide’. Within 1819, the poem cannot be assigned with any certainty, and may belong to the autumn; but certain images, verbal echoes of the Neapolitan letters, and the generality of the political attack, convince me that it belongs early in the year.

51
.
Letters
, II, No. 491, p. 75.

52
. Charles MacFarlane,
Reminiscences of a Literary Life
, 1917, pp. 1–12.

53
.
Letters
, II, No. 492, p. 80.

54
. MacFarlane, op. cit., p. 9.

55
. Letters, II. No. 492, pp. 80–81.

56
.
Mary
, No. 63, p. 62.

57
.
Letters
, II, No. 495, p. 84.

Appendix to Chapter 18

1
. The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library have not yet published or made available the original MSS of eleven of Shelley’s letters to Claire in 1820–2, but they have all except one been printed by F. L. Jones in his authoritative
Letters
, from previous transcripts, and it is doubtful if anything material will appear. However, we will see. Refer also to Chapter 16, Reference 36.

2
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 285–6.

Chapter 19, A Roman Spring: 1819

1
.
Journal
, p. 117.

2
.
Mary
, No. 64, p. 64.

3
. Dowden,
Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, p. 255.

4
.
Claire
, p. 103.

5
.
Mary
, No. 64, p. 64.

6
.
Letters
, II, No. 498, p. 93.

7
.
Claire
, p. 101.

8
.
Letters
, II, No. 495, p. 87.

9
.
With Shelley in Italy
, ed. Anna McMahan, 1908, pp. 101–2 n. 1.

10
.
Poetical Works
, p. 205.

11
.
Letters
, II, No. 495, p. 84–5.

12
. ibid., No. 498, p. 94.

13
.
Poetical Works
, p. 205.

14
. ibid.

15
. ibid., p. 218.

16
. ibid.

17
. ibid., p. 233.

18
. ibid., p. 207.

19
. ibid., p. 206.

20
. ibid., p. 208.

21
. ibid., p. 211.

22
. ibid., p. 212.

23. ibid., p. 220.

24
. ibid., p. 225.

25
. ibid., p. 227.

26
. ibid., p. 228.

27
. ibid., p. 228.

28
. ibid., p. 236.

29
. ibid., p. 238.

30
. ibid., p. 236.

31
. ibid., pp. 237–8.

32
.
Letters
, II, No. 495, p. 86.

33
. ibid., p. 89.

34
.
Poetical Works
, p. 239.

35
. ibid., p. 239.

36
. For a brilliant analysis of this revolutionary-democratic imagery running through out Shelley’s poetry of the 1817–1821 period, see G. M. Matthews, ‘A Volcano’s Voice in Shelley’ (1957), printed in  
Shelley: Modern Judgements
, ed. R. B. Woodings, 1968.

37
.
Poetical Works
, p. 242.

38
. ibid., p. 249.

39
. ibid., p. 260.

Chapter 20, The Palace of the Dark

1
.
Mary
, No. 65, pp. 66–7.

2
.
Mary
, No. 67, pp. 69–70.

3
.
Letters
, II, No. 513, p. 116.

4
. ibid., No. 498, pp. 93–4.

5
.
Claire
, p. 109.

6
. ibid., p. 110.

7
. Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, pp. 239–40.

8
.
Mary
, No. 97, p. 111.

9
. ibid., No. 141, p. 175 n. 2.

10
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 335.

11
. Murray MS.

12
. ibid.

13
.
Claire
, p. 111.

14
.
Letters
, II, No. 497, p. 91.

15
.
Claire
, pp. 111–12.

16
. Preface to
The Cenci, Poetical Works
, p. 277.

17
. ibid.

18
. ibid., p. 278.

19
. ibid., p. 276.

20
. ibid., p. 278.

21
.
Claire
, p. 112.

22
.
Journal
, p. 121.

23
.
Letters
, II, No. 499, p. 95.

24
.
Mary
, No. 69, p. 71.

25
. ibid., No. 73, p. 76.

26
.
Letters
, II, No. 500, p. 97.

Chapter 21, The Hothouse: Livorno 1819

1
.
Letters
, II, No. 501, p. 98.

2
.
Mary
, No. 71, p. 73.

3
. ibid., No. 72, pp. 74–5.

4
. Murray MS.

5
.
Poetical Works
, p. 582. The final line was first printed from Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 12. p. 179 (rev.) by Judith Chernaik,
The Lyrics of Shelley
, 1972, p. 247.

6
. ibid., p. 581.

7
.
Mary
, No. 73, p. 76.

8
. Mary’s Note to
The Cenci, Poetical Works
, p. 336.

9
.
Letters
, II, No. 511, p. 114.

10
. ibid., No. 502, p. 100.

11
. ibid., No. 501, p. 99.

12
. See Chapter 15, for Scythrop at large in Marlow.

13
.
Letters
, II, No. 502, p. 100.

14
. ibid., No. 504, p. 101 n. 2.

15
. ibid., No. 505, p. 104.

16
.
Poetical Works
, p. 295.

17
. ibid., pp. 320–1.

18
. ibid., p. 299.

19
. Preface to
The Cenci, Poetical Works
, p. 277.

20
.
Measure for Measure
, Act III, scene 1. An account of these and some of the other more glaring plagiarisms was thoughtfully drawn up by Dr Leavis in his essay on Shelley in
Revaluation
, 1936. But his remarks
en passant
on
The Mask of Anarchy
, and
Peter Bell the Third
form one of the very few pieces of good modern English literary criticism of Shelley.

21
.
Poetical Works
, p. 332.

22
. ibid., p. 337.

23
.
Letters
, II, No. 504, pp. 102–3.

24
. ibid., No. 506, p. 106.

25
. ibid., No. 509, p. 110.

26
. ibid., No. 508, p. 108.

27
.
Journal
, p. 122.

28
. See Mrs Julian Marshall,
Life and Letters of Mary Shelley.

29
.
Letters
, II, No. 508, p. 109.

30
.
Mary
, No. 76, p. 83.

31
. Maria Gisborne to Mary Shelley in
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: Their Journals and Letters
, F. L. Jones (ed.), p. 54.

32
.
Letters
, II, No. 511, p. 114.

33
.
Gisborne
, p. 53.

34
.
Letters
, II, No. 510, p. 111.

35
. ibid., No. 499, p. 96.

36
. ibid., No. 514, p. 118.

37
. ibid., No. 511, p. 114.

Chapter 22, The West Wind: Florence 1819

1
.
Letters
, II, No. 511, p. 115.

2
. ibid., No. 513, p. 117.

3
.
Poetical Works
, p. 298.

4
. R.J. White,
Waterloo to Peterloo
, p. 191.

5
. Bamford,
Autobiography
, Chs. 24–5.

6
. R.J. White, p. 192.

7
. For an authoritative discussion of the Home Office papers, see E. P. Thompson,
The Making of the English Working Class
, p. 750 n. 1.