Shelley: The Pursuit (166 page)

8
. R.J. White, p. 194.

9
. From an eye-witness in
Three Accounts of Peterloo
, ed. F.A. Brutton, 1921.

10
. Bamford, op. cit., p. 157.

11
. E. P. Thompson, op. cit., p. 754.

12
.
Letters
, II, No. 514, p. 119.

13
.
Poetical Works
, p. 338.

14
. ibid.

15
. ibid., pp. 338–9.

16
. ibid., pp. 339–40.

17
. ibid., p. 340.

18
. ibid., p. 342.

19
. ibid., p. 343.

20
. ibid., p. 344.

21
. ibid.

22
.
Letters
, II, No. 515, p. 120.

23
.
Journal
, p. 124.

24
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 345.

25
.
Mary
, No. 75, p. 80.

26
.
Mary
, No. 75, p. 81.

27
.
Letters
, II, No. 517, p. 123.

28
. ibid., No. 517, p. 122.

29
. W.H. Wickwar,
The Struggle for the Freedom of the Press 1819–1822
, 1928. The whole passage on Burdett’s trial is very instructive, pp. 115–28.

30
. ibid.

31
. Mary’s Note in
Poetical Works
, p. 345.

32
.
Maria Gisborne and Edward E. Williams: Their Journals and Letters
, p. 53.

33
.
Letters
, II, No. 518, p. 124.

34
.
Mary
, No. 76, p. 82.

35
.
Letters
, II, No. 519, p. 126.

36
. ibid., No. 518, p. 126.

37
.
Journal
, p. 125–6.

38
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, pp. 133–42.

39
.
Letters
, II, No. 519, p. 127.

40
.
The Unextinguished Hearth
, p. 141.

41
. ibid., p. 140.

42
. ibid., p. 142.

43
. Medwin,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, p. 226.

44
.
Letters
, II, No. 518, p. 126.

45
. ibid., No. 519, p. 128.

46
. This was almost certainly what is now the first of the three ‘Bixby Notebooks’ kept in the Huntington Library, California. Neville Rogers, in his fine examination of the Shelley notebooks in
Shelley at Work
, 1967, has labelled it ‘Bixby-Huntington I’.

47
. ‘Bixby Huntington I’, in Rogers, op. cit., p. 222.

48
. ibid., p. 224.

49
.
Journal
, p. 125.

50
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 12, pp. 150–1.
Letters
, II, No. 522, p. 130.

51
.
Poetical Works
, p. 577.

52
.
Letters
, II, No. 522, p. 130 n. 1.

53
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 12, p. 63. Illustrated on back of book-jacket.

54
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 6, p. 137, rev.

55
. Rogers, op. cit., p. 19. It is a quote from Euripides’s
Hercules Furens.
Shelley had translated the
Cyclops
of Euripides earlier during the summer, and it was published in the
Examiner
for 10 October 1819.

56
.
Letters
, II, No. 535, p. 160.

57
. ibid., No. 524, p. 132.

58
. ibid., No. 520, p. 129.

59
.
Mary
, No. 78, p. 85.

60
.
Letters
, II, No. 539, p. 164.

61
.
Poetical Works
, p. 362.

62
. ibid., p. 346.

63
. ibid., p. 347.

64
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 356–7.

65
. ibid., pp. 350–2.

66
. ibid., pp. 355–6.

67
. Mary’s note in
Poetical Works
, p. 363.

68
.
Letters
, II, No. 526, p. 135.

69
. ibid., No. 527, p. 136 n. 1.

70
. ibid., II, No. 527, p. 143.

71
.
The Shelley Correspondence in the Bodleian Library
, ed. R.H. Hill, 1926, pp. 21–30.

72
.
Letters
, II, No. 527, p. 147.

73
.
Journal
, p. 126.

74
.
Letters
, II, No. 529, p. 151.

75
. ibid., No. 528, p. 150.

Chapter 23, From the Gallery: Florence 1820

1
.
Letters
, II, No. 529, p. 151.

2
. ibid., No. 531, p. 155.

3
. ibid., No. 532, p. 156.

4
. ibid., No. 534, p. 159.

5
. ibid., No. 523 p. 158.

6
. ibid., No. 530, p. 153.

7
.
Mary
, No. 79, p. 87.

8
. ibid., No. 78, p. 85.

9
. ibid.

10
. ibid., No. 80, p. 87.

11
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 6, p. 136 rev.

12
. A fully integrated text of the 21 stanzas was first published in a small pamphlet in 1970,
England in 1819: Church, State and Poverty
by W.J. McTaggart, under the imprint of the Keats–Shelley Memorial Association. This edition contains a full discussion of all MS variants. My quotation starts from Bod. MS. and ends with Silsbee — Harrard MS.

13
.
Mary
, No. 81, p. 88.

14
. ibid., No. 81, p. 89. Grylls
Claire Clairmont
, p. 113.

15
. Sophia Stacey’s diary has not been published, but substantial extracts are given in
Shelley and his Friends in Italy
by Helena Rossetti Angeli, 1911.

16
.
Claire
, p. 116.

17
. H.R. Angeli, op. cit.

18
.
Prose
, p. 346.

19
. ibid.

20
. ibid., p. 347. I have not unfortunately seen the holograph of this entry, but I suspect that the polite lacuna is an editor’s — not Shelley’s.

21
. ibid., p. 351.

22
. ibid., p. 351.

23
. ibid., p. 348.

24
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 580, 583, 610.

25
.
Letters
, II, No. 544, p. 167.

26
.
Poetical Works
, p. 627. But I have adopted the reading from the Stacey MS of 1820.

27
.
Letters
, II, No. 539, pp. 163–4.

28
. ibid., No. 542, p. 165.

29
. ibid., No. 539, p. 164.

30
. ibid., No. 543, p. 166.

31
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 574–5. I have altered the endline punctuation, which is introduced by Mrs Shelley in 1839.

32
. ibid., p. 583.

Chapter 24, The Reformer: Pisa 1820

1
.
Prose
, pp. 196–214.

2
.
Claire
, p. 117.

3
. ibid., pp. 116–17.

4
. ibid., p. 118.

5
.
Letters
, II, No. 545, p. 169.

6
.
Claire
, pp. 118–19.

7
. Bod. MS Shelley Adds. e. 6, pp. 172–75, rev.

8
.
Claire
, pp. 119 and 124–5; H.R. Angeli,
Shelley and his Friends in Italy
, pp. 115ff.

9
.
Claire
, p. 119.

10
.
Mary
, No. 85, pp. 96–7.

11
. ibid., p. 95.

12
.
Claire
, p. 122.

13
.
Mary
, No. 85, p. 96.

14
.
Claire
, p. 126.

15
. ibid., pp. 127–9.

16
.
Journal
, p. 129.

17
.
Letters
, II, No. 554, p. 176.

18
. ibid., No. 556, p. 179.

19
.
Mary
, No. 87, p. 101.

20
. ibid., No. 90, p. 103.

21
. ibid., No. 86, p. 99.

22
.
Claire
, p. 134.

23
.
Letters
, II, No. 554, pp. 176–7.

24
. ibid., No. 555, p. 178.

25
. ibid., No. 557, p. 181.

26
. ibid., No. 560, p. 187.

27
. ibid., n. 6.

28
. ibid., No. 557, p. 180.

29
.
Mary
, No. 91, p. 104.

30
.
Poetical Works
, pp. 594–5.

31
. ibid., p. 599.

32
.
Mary
, No. 92, p. 106; and
Journal
, p. 131.

33
.
Letters
, II, No. 568, p. 201.

34
.
Prose
, p. 239.

35
. ibid., pp. 239–40.

36
. ibid., pp. 230 and 231: see also ‘A Defence of Poetry’,
Prose
, p. 288, where Jesus Christ is consistently treated as a ‘great Reformer’, but the Catholic church as a vicious imperialism.

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.