1. 5. _Pavilioned in its tent of light._ Shelley was fond of the word Pavilion, whether as substantive or as verb. See St. 50: 'Pavilioning the dust of him,' &c. FOOTNOTES: [1] See the _Life of Mrs. Shelley_, by Lucy Madox Rossetti (_Eminent Women Series_), published in 1890. The connexion between the two branches of the Shelley family is also set forth--incidentally, but with perfect distinctness--in Collins's _Peerage of England_(1756), vol. iii. p. 119. He says that Viscount Lumley (who died at some date towards 1670) 'married Frances, daughter of Henry Shelley, of Warminghurst in Sussex, Esq. (a younger branch of the family seated at Michaelgrove, the seat of the present Sir John Shelley, Bart.).' [2] I am indebted to Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson for some strongly reasoned arguments, in private-correspondence, tending to Harriet's disculpation. [3] This line (should be '_Beneath_ the good,' &c.) is the final line of Gray's _Progress of Poesy_. The sense in which Shelley intends to apply it to _The Cenci_ may admit of some doubt. He seems to mean that _The Cenci_ is not equal to really good tragedies; but still is superior to some tragedies which have recently appeared, and which bad critics have dubbed great. [4] This phrase is not very clear to me. From the context ensuing, it might seem that the 'circumstance' which prevented Keats from staying with Shelley in Pisa was that his nerves were in so irritable a state as to prompt him to move from place to place in Italy rather than fix in any particular city or house. [5] Though Shelley gave this advice, which was anything but unsound, he is said to have taken good-naturedly some steps with a view to getting the volume printed. Mr. John Dix, writing in 1846, says: 'He [Shelley] went to Charles Richards, the printer in St. Martin's Lane, when quite young, about the printing a little volume of Keats's first poems.' [6] This statement is not correct--so far at least as the longer poems in the volume are concerned. _Isabella_ indeed was finished by April, 1818; but _Hyperion_ was not relinquished till late in 1819, and the _Eve of St. Agnes_ and _Lamia_ were probably not even begun till 1819. [7] See p, 96 as to Shelley's under-rating of Keats's age. He must have supposed that Keats was only about twenty years old at the date when _Endymion_ was completed. The correct age was twenty-two. [8] The passages to which Shelley refers begin thus: 'And then the forest told it in a dream;' 'The rosy veils mantling the East;' 'Upon a weeded rock this old man sat.' [9] I do not find in Shelley's writings anything which distinctly modifies this opinion. However, his biographer, Captain Medwin, avers that Shelley valued all the poems in Keats's final volume; he cites especially _Isabella_ and _The Eve of St. Agnes_.