Shelley: The Pursuit

by Richard Holmes

  37. Prose, p. 240.

  38. Letters, II, No. 564, p. 192.

  39. Prose, p. 241.

  40. ibid., pp. 244–5.

  41. ibid., p. 242.

  42. ibid., p. 249.

  43. ibid., p. 250.

  44. ibid., p. 251.

  45. ibid.

  46. ibid., p. 247.

  47. ibid., p. 255.

  48. ibid., p. 258.

  49. ibid., p. 259.

  50. ibid., p. 257.

  51. ibid., p. 259.

  52. ibid., p. 260.

  53. Letters, II, No. 564, p. 193.

  54. Claire, p. 146.

  55. Letters, II, No. 568, p. 201.

  56. But this was almost undoubtedly the result of pressure put on her by Sir Timothy Shelley during the preparation of the official edition of the Prose (1840). It was omitted from the later editions of the 1880s and was first published in a small monograph, A Philosophical View of Reform, ed. T. W. Rolleston, 1920.

  57. Letters, II, No. 563, p. 191.

  58. Poetical Works, pp. 338ff, 571, 572, 573, 574.

  59. Poetical Works, p. 572–3.

  60. Letters, II, No. 563, p. 191.

  61. The Unextinguished Hearth, p. 181.

  62. ibid., p. 167–97.

  63. Letters, II, No. 577, p. 216.

  64. ibid., No. 569, p. 201.

  65. ibid., No. 566, p. 196.

  66. Mary, No. 98, p. 112.

  67. Letters, II, No. 568, p. 200.

  68. Claire, p. 150 and p. 150 n. 2.

  69. ibid., p. 151.

  70. Journal, p. 134.

  71. Mary, No. 96, p. 108.

  72. Letters, II, No. 571, p. 207.

  73. Poetical Works, p. 369.

  74. ibid., p. 365.

  75. Letters, II, No. 571, p. 208.

  76. ibid., No. 573 and 574. p. 209.

  77. Journal, p. 135.

  78. Claire, pp. 153–4.

  79. ibid., p. 154.

  80. Byron to Hoppner, 22 April 1820, Lord Byron: Selected Prose, 1972, pp. 349–50.

  81. Letters, II, No. 567, pp. 198–9.

  82. ibid., No. 575, p. 210.

  83. Probably in Shelley’s letter to Peacock, Letters, II, No. 576, p. 213.

  84. Claire, p. 156.

  85. Letters, II, No. 576, p. 213.

  86. ibid., p. 214.

  87. Claire, pp. 156–7.

  88. Letters, II, No. 578, p. 218.

  89. ibid., No. 579, p. 221.

  90. ibid., No. 578, pp. 218–20.

  91. ibid., No. 580, p. 223.

  Chapter 25, The Moons of Pisa: 1820

  1. H.R. Angeli, Shelley and his Friends in Italy, pp. 150–3.

  2. Letters, II, No. 580. p. 222.

  3. Claire, p. 168.

  4. Letters, II, No. 582, pp. 224–8.

  5. ibid., No. 582A, p. 229.

  6. Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters, F. L. Jones (ed.), Monday 28 August 1820, pp. 47–8.

  7. Poetical Works, p. 383.

  8. ibid., p. 388.

  9. ibid., p. 371.

  10. J.O. Fuller, Shelley, Ch. 16, p. 323 n. 11.

  11. ibid.

  12. Poetical Works, pp. 379–80.

  13. ibid., p. 387.

  14. ibid., p. 386.

  15. Letters, II, No. 570, p. 204.

  16. ibid., p. 205 n. 3.

  17. ibid., No. 583, pp. 230–2.

  18. Southey to Shelley in Letters, II, No. 583, p. 232 n. 11.

  19. Poetical Works, p. 410.

  20. Claire, pp. 177–8.

  21. Poetical Works, p. 409.

  22. Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, II, p. 345.

  23. Poetical Works, p. 410; p. 908; and Wickwar, The Struggle for the Freedom of the Press.

  24. Poetical Works, p. 727.

  25. ibid., p. 614.

  26. ibid., p. 621.

  27. ibid.

  28. Letters, II, No. 587, pp. 235–7.

  29. ibid., No. 588, p. 237.

  30. Medwin, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, pp. 259–61.

  31. Letters, II, No. 513, p. 117.

  32. ibid., II, No. 589, pp. 239–40.

  33. ibid., II, No. 589, pp. 239–40.

  34. Claire, p. 179.

  35. Journal, p. 139.

  36. Mary to Maria Gisborne, 16 October 1820, in Studies in Philology, LII, 1955.

  37. Letters, II, No. 575, p. 310.

  38. Claire, Appendix C, p. 470.

  39. ibid., p. 179.

  40. ibid., p. 179.

  41. ibid., p. 180.

  42. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 233–4.

  43. H.R. Angeli, op. cit., pp. 157–8.

  44. Journal, p. 140.

  45. Mary’s Note in Poetical Works, p. 636.

  Chapter 26, The Tuscan Set: 1821

  1. Letters, II, No. 591, p. 242.

  2. Journal, p. 140.

  3. Poetical Works, p. 564.

  4. Letters, II, No. 593, p. 246.

  5. Medwin, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, pp. 267–9.

  6. But I have not seen the holograph as it is one of those still restricted by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. It has therefore to be borne in mind that this letter may have suffered from editorial omissions. See Appendix to Chapter 18, ref. 1.

  7. Letters, II, No. 590, p. 241.

  8. ibid., No. 591, pp. 241–3.

  9. ibid., No. 592, p. 245.

  10. Medwin, op. cit., p. 238.

  11. ibid., p. 249.

  12. Poetical Works, pp. 623–4.

  13. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 250–1.

  14. Letters, II, No. 395, p. 249.

  15. Claire, p. 184.

  16. Medwin, op. cit., p. 169.

  17. Journal, p. 141.

  18. Claire, p. 187.

  19. For Professor Pacchiani, see Medwin, op. cit., pp. 273–8; Mary, No. 101, p. 117; and Claire, p. 188 n. 65.

  20. Claire, Appendix C, p. 472.

  21. Marchand, Byron: A Biography, II, p. 844.

  22. Mary, No. 101, p. 117.

  23. Letters, II, No. 599, p. 254 n. 1.

  24. Mary, No. 101, p. 118.

  25. Journal, pp. 141–2.

  26. Medwin, op. cit., p. 279.

  27. Claire, p. 196. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 269–70.

  28. Claire, p. 196.

  29. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 9.

  30. Medwin, op. cit., p. 270.

  31. Claire, p. 198.

  32. Mary, No. 107, p. 123.

  33. ibid., No. 108, p. 126.

  34. Claire, p. 195.

  35. Mary, No. 109, p. 127.

  36. ibid., No. 109, p. 129.

  37. Letters, II, No. 599, pp. 254–5.

  38. Poetical Work, p. 638.

  39. Manuscript Notebook ‘Bixby Huntington I’, given by H. B. Forman in an annotation of Medwin, op. cit., p. 281.

  40. Letters, II, Appendix I, pp. 447–9. These Italian letter fragments were first discovered among the Bod. MSS and printed by Neville Rogers, Shelley at Work, 1956.

  41. See Maria Viviani della Rovvia, Vita di Una Donna; l’Emily di Shelley, Florence, 1936.

  42. ibid., p. 84.

  43. ibid., pp. 87–8.

  44. Mary, No. 109, p. 129.

  45. ibid., No. 110, p. 133.

  46. Medwin, op. cit., pp. 283–4.

  47. Letters, II, No. 601, p. 256.

  48. ibid.

  49. ibid.

  50. Poetical Works, p. 420.

  51. Poetical Works, p. 423.

  52. ibid., p. 427.

  53. ibid., p. 417.

  54. ibid., p. 428.

  55. ibid., p. 415.

  56. ibid., pp. 424–5.

  57. ibid., p. 425.

  58. ibid., p. 411.

  59. ibid., p. 418.

  60. ibid., p. 419.

  61. Mary, No. 135, p. 161.

  62. Poetical Works, pp. 419–20.

  63. ibid., p. 417

  64. Thornton Hunt, articl
e in Atlantic Monthly, February 1863.

  65. Poetical Works, p. 105.

  66. Letters, II, No. 606, p. 263.

  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.

  20. Letters, II, No. 672, pp. 367–8, and 674.

  21. ibid., No. 672, pp. 367–8.

  22. ibid., No. 674, p. 371.
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  23. ibid., p. 370.

  24. Williams, op. cit., p. 123.

  25. Letters, II, No. 676, p. 373. Williams, op. cit., p. 123.

  26. Letters, II, No. 677, p. 376.

  27. Poetical Works, p. 753.

  28. Letters, II, No. 697, p. 407.

  29. Poetical Works, p. 758.

  30. ibid., p. 761.

  31. Letters, II, No. 697, p. 406.

  32. ibid., No. 692, p. 401.

  33. Medwin, op. cit., p. 325, who says it was ��1,400; but there is no real evidence that such a large sum was involved. Medwin was inclined to muddle these things.

  34. Letters, II, No. 678, p. 379.

  35. Williams, op. cit., p. 126.

  36. Journal, p. 165.

  37. Trelawny, op. cit., p. 173.

  38. ibid., p. 172.

  39. ibid., p. 187.

  40. Williams, op. cit., p. 125.

  41. Mary, No. 132, pp. 155–6.

  42. ibid.

  43. Williams, op. cit., p. 131.

  44. Mary, No. 132, p. 156.

  45. Letters, II, No. 677, p. 375.

  46. ibid., No. 683, pp. 387–8.

  47. Letters, II, No. 681, pp. 384–6; and compare Poetical Works, p. 644.

  48. Williams, op. cit., p. 127.

  49. ibid., p. 128 n. 87.

  50. Poetical Works, p. 671.

  51. Letters, II, No. 678, p. 378; and 692, p. 400.

  52. ibid., No. 682, p. 386.

  53. Claire, p. 274.

  54. BM. Ashley 4752.

  55. Mary, No. 133, p. 157.

  56. Claire, pp. 279–84.

  57. Williams, op. cit., p. 133.

  58. Letters, II, No. 687, pp. 391–2.

  59. ibid., No. 689, p. 394.

  60. ibid.

  61. Williams, op. cit., p. 135.

  62. ibid.

  63. Poetical Works, p. 486.

  64. Letters, II, No. 689, p. 394.

  65. Poetical Works, pp. 506���7.

  66. Mary, No. 136, p. 162.

  67. ibid.

  68. Captain Hay reported in Williams, op. cit., p. 138.

  69. Williams, op. cit., p. 138.

  70. Mary, No. 136, p. 162.

  71. Evidence of the eyewitness Mr Crawfurd in Williams, op. cit., p. 139.

  72. Williams, op. cit., p. 137.

  73. ibid., p. 138.

  74. Letters, II, Appendix 5, No. 2.

  75. Mary, No. 121, p. 141.

  76. Letters, II, No. 691, p. 399.

  77. ibid., No. 695, p. 403.

  78. ibid., No. 692, p. 400.

  79. ibid.

  80. ibid., No. 696, p. 404.

  81. Williams, op. cit., p. 144.

  82. ibid.

  83. Letters, II, No. 697, pp. 408–9.

  84. ibid., No. 698, p. 411.

  85. ibid., No. 699, p. 412.

  86. ibid., No. 696, p. 405.

  Chapter 29, The Gulf of Spezia

  1. Williams, in Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: their Journals and Letters, p. 145.

  2. ibid.

  3. Letters, II, No. 701, p. 414.