Shelley: The Pursuit (164 page)

99
. See N.I. White,
Shelley
, I, pp. 743–4 (notes) for discussion of this complicated deal. The documents are confusing and Dowden, Ingpen, Peck and White all believe the loan was only £2,000. But to me this seems inadequate in the light of Shelley’s debts by 1822.

100
.
Letters
, I, No. 455, p. 597 n. 3.

101
. ibid., No. 455, pp. 597–8 n. 3.

102
. ibid., which gives Godwin’s Diary for February 1818.

103
.
Claire
, p. 86.

104
.
Letters
, I, No. 457, p. 599.

105
.
Claire
, p. 87.

106
.
Letters
, II, No. 459, p. 2.

Chapter 16, The Platonist: Bagni di Lucca 1818

1
.
Letters
, II, No. 460, p. 4.

2
.
Journal
, p. 93.

3
. ibid., p. 94.

4
. ibid.

5
. ibid., pp. 94–5.

6
.
Claire
, p. 88.

7
. Dowden,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, II, p. 190n.

8
.
Claire
, p. 88.

9
.
Letters
, II, No. 460, p. 4.

10
.
Claire
, p. 89 n. 46.

11
.
Letters
, II, No. 462, pp. 7–8.

12
. ibid.

13
.
Claire
, pp. 90–1, n. 48.

14
. ibid., p. 91.

15
.
Letters
II, No. 462, p. 9.

16
. ibid., No. 461, p. 5.

17
. Marchand,
Byron: A Biography
, II, p. 731.

18
. Neither of Byron’s letters about Claire and Allegra are extant, but their contents can be clearly inferred from Shelley’s replies.

19
.
Letters
, II, No. 463, pp. 10–11.

20
. Marchand, op. cit., II, p. 730.

21
. ibid., p. 772.

22
.
Letters
, II, No. 464, p. 12.

23
. ibid., No. 465, p. 16.

24
. ibid., No. 468, p. 18.

25
. Dowden, op. cit., II, p. 205; and Mary, No. 51, p. 50.

26
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 552–3.

27
.
Mary
, No. 51, p. 52.

28
.
Journal
, p. 98.

29
.
Letters
, II, No. 468, p. 18.

30
.
Poetical Works
, p. 559.

31
.
Journal
, p. 98.

32
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 13, p. 2.

33
.
Mary
, No. 73, p. 77.

34
.
Claire
, Appendix C, p. 469.

35
.
Letters
, II, No. 472, p. 26.

36
. Claire’s Diary is not extant for the period July 1818 to February 1819. It commences again in Rome on Sunday 7 March 1819. The Diary for ‘April 23 to June’ is held in MS by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library; but the present editor, Donald H. Reiman, has advised me in answer to an inquiry about the personal contents of entries during this period, ‘once the MSS have been published in
Shelley & His Circle
, they will be available to qualified scholars upon approval of application. It may, however, be helpful to you to know in advance that the portion of Claire Clairmont’s Journal that remains unpublished contains no such revealing personal sidelights as that which you mention.’ (Reiman to Holmes, 8 November 1971.)

37
.
Mary
, No. 53, pp. 54–5.

38
.
Letters
, II, No. 472, p. 25.

39
. ibid., No. 470, p. 20.

40
. ibid., No. 472, p. 25.

41
. ibid., No. 471, p. 22.

42
. ibid., No. 472, p. 25.

43
. ibid., No. 472, p. 27.

44
. ibid., No. 475, p. 29.

45
.
Journal
, pp. 101–3.

46
. ‘Shelley’s Translations from the Greek’ by Benjamin Farrington, in
Dublin Magazine
, III, 1928.

47
. ibid.

48
. See the discussion of Plato’s standing in England during the early nineteenth century in James A. Notopoulos,
The Platonism of Shelley
, Duke University Press, 1949, pp. 375–401.

49
.
Mary
, No. 54, p. 56.

50
.
Letters
, II, No. 475, p. 29.

51
. For example, H. B. Forman’s edition of Shelley’s prose in 4 volumes, 1880; and the authoritative Julian edition of 1926–30. Even D.L. Clark’s edition of the prose, 1954–67, does not print
The Banquet.

52
. Edward Carpenter,
The Psychology of the Poet Shelley
, 1925; and Herbert Read,
The True Voice of Feeling
, 1947.

53
. Bod. MSS Shelley Adds. d. 8, printed by Sir John C. E. Shelley-Rolls, Bart., and Roger Ingpen as
Plato’s Banquet, Translated from the Greek
. . ., 1931. Also Notopoulos, op. cit.

54
. Notopoulos, op. cit., p. 402.

55
. ‘A Defence of Poetry’, in
Prose
, p. 280.

56
. Notopoulos, op. cit., p. 411.

57
. ibid., pp. 411–12.

58
. ibid., pp. 407–8.

59
. ibid., p. 412.

60
. ibid.

61
. Mary’s Note, in
Poetical Works
, pp. 158–9.

62
. Notopoulos, p. 422.

63
. ibid., pp. 429–30.

64
. His remarks on Agathon are in Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 16.

65
. ibid.

66
. Notopoulos, op. cit., pp. 441–2.

Chapter 17, An Evening with Count Maddalo: Venice

1
.
Journal
, p. 104.

2
. From Claire’s letter to Byron, printed in
To Lord Byron
, eds. G. Paston and P. Quennell, 1939, p. 237. It also seems that Elise was upset by some of Byron’s remarks regarding Shelley, Claire and Allegra.

3
.
Letters
, II, No. 479, pp. 34–5.

4
. ibid., No. 479, pp. 35–6.

5
. ibid.

6
. ibid., pp. 36–7.

7
. ibid., pp. 37–8.

8
.
Letters
, II, No. 483, p. 43.

9
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 204.

10
.
Journal
, p. 105.

11
.
Letters
, II, No. 480, p. 38.

12
. ibid., No. 481, pp. 39–40.

13
.
Mary
, No. 55, p. 58.

14
. For an excellent feminist critique of Shelley’s mishandling of his children, see Ursula Orange, ‘Shuttlecocks of Genius’ in
Keats–Shelley Memorial Bulletin
, No. 195.

15
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 204.

16
.
Letters
, II, No. 482, pp. 40–41.

17
. ‘Mathilda’ is discussed in Mrs Julian Marshall’s
Life and Letters of Mary Shelley
, and has been edited by Elizabeth Nitchie,
Mathilda
, Chapel Hill, 1959 from Abinger MSS reels 6–7.

18
.
Journal
, p. 105.

19
. ibid., pp. 106–9.

20
.
Letters
, II, No. 484, p. 44.

21
. ibid., No. 483, p. 43.

22
. ibid., No. 488, p. 58.

23
.
Poetical Works
, p. 191.

24
. ibid., p. 189.

25
. ibid., p. 190.

26
. ibid.

27
. ibid., p. 192.

28
. ibid., p. 193.

29
. ibid.

30
. ibid., p. 194.

31
. ibid., p. 190.

32
. ibid., p. 195.

33
. ibid., p. 199.

34
. ibid., p. 201.

35
. ibid., p. 202.

36
. ibid., p. 203.

37
.
Posthumous Poems
, 1824.

38
.
Letters
, II, No. 540, p. 164.

Chapter 18, The Tombs of Naples: 1818

1
.
Letters
, II, No. 485, p. 45.

2
. ibid., pp. 45–7.

3
. ibid., p. 48.

4
.
Letters
, II, No. 486, pp. 50–2.

5
.
Letters
, II, No. 487, p. 56.

6
.
Journal
, p. 111.

7
.
Letters
, II, No. 488, p. 59.

8
.
Journal
, p. 111.

9
.
Prose
, p. 226.

10
. ibid., p. 224.

11
.
Mary
, No. 59, p. 60.

12
.
Letters
, II, No. 488, p. 60.

13
.
Mary
, No. 59, p. 59.

14
.
Mary
, No. 128, p. 148. Her letter to Mrs Hoppner of 10 August 1821.

15
.
Letters
, II, No. 488, p. 60.

16
. ibid., p. 61.

17
.
Journal
, p. 113.

18
.
Letters
, II, No. 491, p. 73.

19
.
Poetical Works
, p. 561.

20
. ibid., p. 559; p. 570.

21
. ibid., pp. 564–9.

22
. ibid., pp. 570–1.

23
.
Letters
, II, No. 488, p. 54.

24
. ibid., No. 489, pp. 67–8.

25
. ibid., No. 490, p. 69.

26
. ibid., No. 575, p. 211. Shelley to the Gisbornes in London 7 July 1820. The last sentence is a compounded quotation from
King Lear
, Act IV, Scene 6, which has a specifically sexual reference.

27
. See
Mary
, to Maria Gisborne, 18 June 1820, No. 96, p. 108;
Letters
, II, to Claire, 18 February 1821, No. 609, p. 267; also
Mary
, to Mrs Hoppner, 10 August 1821, No. 128, p. 128.