I wrote these lines—... owned them—he told stories!
Thomas Ingoldsby.
[P. 178.] The Demolished Farce. Bayly's own popular song:
Oh no, we never mention her,
Her name is never heard.
See also Andrew Lang's parody, [p. 353.]
[P. 179.] Peter Bell the Third. Mrs. Shelley felt constrained to note that—
nothing personal to the author of Peter Bell is intended in this poem. No man ever admired Wordsworth's poetry more;—he read it perpetually, and taught others to appreciate its beauties.... His idea was that a man gifted, even as transcendently as the author of Peter Bell, with the highest qualities of genius, must, if he fostered such errors, be infected with dullness. This poem was written as a warning—not as a narration of reality. He was unacquainted personally with Wordsworth, or with Coleridge (to whom he alludes in the fifth part of the poem), and therefore, I repeat, his poem is purely ideal;—it contains something of criticism on the compositions of those great poets, but nothing injurious to the men themselves.
[P. 186.] * * * Mr. H. Buxton Forman says: 'All seems to me to point to Eldon as the name left out here.'
(See note to [p. 219].)