[209] Palgrave, Poetical Works of John Keats, p. 274.
[210] Poetical Works, 1832, p. 36.
[211] The poem is reported to have brought £100, more than any poem sold during his lifetime. It is now lost.
[212] Mac-Carthay, who has fully treated this incident, thinks that the account Hunt gave of the matter many years later is so incoherent as to indicate that he did not receive the letter until after he met Shelley, or perhaps not at all. He also points out that two passages in the letter to Hunt of March 2, 1811, important in their bearing upon Shelley’s political theories at this time, are identical with passages in a letter of February 22 of the same year, addressed to the editor of The Statesman, presumably Finnerty. (Shelley’s Early Life, pp. 1-106.)
[213] Hancock, The French Revolution and English Poets, pp. 50-77.
[214] Letter to Miss Hitchener, June 25, 1811.
[215] G. B. Smith, Shelley, A Critical Biography, p. 88.
[216] See the Letter to Lord Ellenborough.
[217] Smith, Shelley, A Critical Biography, p. 110.
[218] For Shelley’s opinion on the coincidence of their political views, see the last paragraph of the dedication of The Cenci.