87–94.

24   H. Buxton Forman, Vicissitudes of Shelley’s Queen Mab: A Chapter in the History of Reform (London: privately printed, 1887); Bouthaina Shaaban, ‘Shelley and the Chartists’, in Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, ed. Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 114–25; St Clair, The Reading Nation, pp. 318–22.

25   Critical Heritage, pp. 254–5.

26   Critical Heritage, p. 192.

27   Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824), p. iv.

28   The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. Betty T. Bennett, vol. 1 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), pp. 444–5; Roger Ingpen, Shelley in England (London: Kegan Paul, 1917), pp. 576–86; Michael Rossington, ‘Editing Shelley’, in The Oxford Handbook, pp. 645–56.

29   The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886).

30   St Clair, The Reading Nation, pp. 318–20, 680–82; Complete Poetry, II, pp. 509–10.

31   Stuart Curran, Shelley’s Cenci: Scorpions Ringed with Fire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970), pp. 183–97.

32   Letters II, p. 127.

33   Letters I, pp. 504, 507–8.

34   Shelley refers approvingly to the American experience in Laon and Cythna, ll. 4414–39, and in Hellas, ll. 66–71, 1027–30 (pp. 518, 547).

35   Prose Works I, p. 37.

36   A Philosophical View of Reform – see p. 637.

37   The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, revised edn (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1971), p. 282.

38   Letters II, p. 108.

39   Letters I, p. 242.

40   Prose, pp. 185–6.

41   The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed.