L. Jones (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1951), p. 111.

7     Poems II, p. 32; Letters II, pp. 363, 388.

8     St Clair, The Reading Nation, pp. 649–51.

9     Letters II, pp. 323, 374.

10   Letters I, p. 265.

11   Poems I, pp. 238–9; Complete Poetry II, pp. 65–6.

12   Robin Jarvis, ‘The Literary Marketplace’, in his The Romantic Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1789–1830 (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2004), pp. 50–73; St Clair, The Reading Nation; Stephen C. Behrendt, Shelley and His Audiences (Lincoln, Nebr., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989).

13   Letters I, p. 20.

14   Letters I, p. 361.

15   Poems II, pp. 268–9.

16   Letters II, p. 174.

17   Letters II, p. 102; Poems II, pp. 733–4.

18   Letters II, pp. 191, 201, 164.

19   Letters II, p. 365.

20   See Newman Ivey White, The Unextinguished Hearth: Shelley and His Contemporary Critics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1938; reprinted New York: Octagon Books, 1966); a broad selection of periodical criticism and opinion up to the mid nineteenth century is gathered in Critical Heritage; for a complete collection of contemporary reviews, see The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers 1793–1830, Part C: Shelley, Keats, and London Radical Writers, ed. Donald H. Reiman, 2 vols (New York: Garland, 1972).

21   Critical Heritage, pp. 124–35.

22   ‘Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Part II’, in The Works of Thomas Love Peacock, ed. H. F. B. Brett-Smith and C. E. Jones, 10 vols (New York: AMS Press, 1967; original edition 1927), VIII, p. 107.

23   Critical Heritage, pp.