[276] “This poem [Don Juan] carries with it at once the stamp of originality and defiance of imitation.” (Shelley, Letter to Byron, Oct. 21, 1821).

[277] Don Juan, II., 105; II., 166; V., 4; VI., 5–6.

[278] Ibid., V., 33–39.

[279] Don Juan, IX., 41.

[280] Letters, iv., 342.

[281] Don Juan, I., 200.

[282] Don Juan, XII., 55.

[283] Letters, iv., 260.

[284] Letters, vi., 155.

[285] Don Juan, XIV., 99.