[490] In 1844, however, he refashioned the whole poem, now representing Giovanni as deformed and as the murderer of his wife and brother, whereas in the version of 1816 Paolo had been slain in a duel and Francesca had died of grief. In 1855, he made a second change and went back to the 1816 version. The duel he preserved in the fragment, _Corso and Emilia_. Hunt's translation of Dante's episode appeared in _Stories of Verse_, 1855. In 1857 he made a third change and restored the version of 1844. [491] The editor of _Blackwood's_ in a letter dated April 20, 1818, offered space to P. G. Patmore for a favourable critique of Hunt's poetry, reserving to himself the privilege of answering such an article. He stated further that if Hunt had employed less violent language towards the reviewer of _Rimini_ he might have been given a friendly explanation. _Memoirs and Correspondence of Coventry Patmore_, II, p. 438. [492] This charge was renewed in a review of Hunt's _Autobiography_ in 1850 in the _Eclectic Review_, XCII, p. 416. [493] Byron greatly resented Southey's article: "I am glad Mr. Southey owns that article on _Foliage_ which excited my choler so much. But who else could have been the author? Who but Southey would have had the baseness, under the pretext of reviewing the work of one man, insidiously to make it nest work for hatching malicious calumnies against others?... I say nothing of the critique itself on _Foliage_; with the exception of a few sonnets, it was unworthy of Hunt. But what was the object of that article? I repeat, to villify and scatter his dark and devilish insinuation against me and others." (Medwin, _Conversations of Lord Byron_, p. 102.) Again Byron wrote of Southey in 1820: "Hence his quarterly overflowings, political and literary, in what he has termed himself 'the ungentle craft,' and his special wrath against Mr. Leigh Hunt, not withstanding that Hunt has done more for Wordsworth's reputation as a poet (such as it is), than all the Lakers could in their interchange of praises for the last twenty-five years." (_Letters and Journals_, V, p. 84.) [494] _London Magazine_, October, 1823. [495] September, 1823. [496] Reprinted in the _Museum of Foreign Literature_, XII, p. 568. [497] August, 1834, XXVI, p. 273. [498] C. C. Clarke, _Recollections of Writers_, p. 244. The year in which the letter was written is not given, but it must fall within the years 1833-1840, the period of Hunt's residence at Chelsea. [499] _The Victorian Age_, I, pp. 94-101. [500] Hunt, _Autobiography_, II, p. 267. [501] _Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays_, New York and Boston, 1860, IV, p. 350.