¹ PMLA, xlix (March, 1934), 229–245.

² Ibid., 229.

³ Ibid., 240.

⁴ Ibid., 241.

⁵ Ibid., 241.

⁶ Ibid., 241.

⁷ Ibid., 242.

⁸ Ibid., 243.

⁹ Ibid., 229.

¹⁰ Ibid., 229.

¹¹ “Preface” to Alastor. Quotations from Shelley's writings are from the text as given in the Julian edition of The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Roger Ingpen and Walter W. Peck, 1926–30.

¹² Professor Havens (“Shelley's Alastor,” PMLA xlv (December, 1930), 1102) says: “In spite of the preface, the solitary does not seek for a prototype of his conception. It is the veiled maid that he wants and no other.” But the Poet feels that his dream maiden has a basis in existence; that is, that there is a being who corresponds to the vision that he beheld; and this being that he seeks is the prototype, or original, of his dream.

¹³ Edward Dowden, Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London, 1886), ii, 473.

¹⁴ “Dedication” (To Mary—) to The Revolt of Islam, 43–45.

¹⁵ Ibid., 46–54.

¹⁶ The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ed. Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck, “The Julian Edition” (1926–30), x, 401.

¹⁷ Ibid., x, 401.

¹⁸ Professors Mueschke and Griggs (op. cit., p. 243, footnote) admit that “the vision is spoken of as being inspired by human love.”

¹⁹ “Preface” to Alastor.

²⁰ Op. cit., 243.

²¹ Alastor, 200–202.

²² Mueschke and Griggs, op. cit., 241.

²³ Alastor, 652–653.

²⁴ Op. cit., 240.

²⁵ Ibid., 241.

²⁶ Alastor, 224–226.

²⁷ Ibid., 233.

²⁸ Ibid., 248–251.

²⁹ Ibid., 266–267.

³⁰ Ibid., 305.

³¹ Ibid., 291.

³² Ibid., 212.

³³ Ibid., 311–315.

³⁴ Ibid., 326.

³⁵ Ibid., 330–332.

³⁶ Ibid., 366–369.

³⁷ Ibid., 407–408.

³⁸ Ibid., 428. In bis, desperate hope, he is not certain what the restless impulse is that drives him on—whether it is a “fair fiend” (l. 297), or love, or merely a dream, or death enticing him to destruction.

³⁹ Ibid., 429.

⁴⁰ Ibid., 455–456.

⁴¹ Ibid., 484–485.

⁴² Ibid., 491.

⁴³ Ibid., 572.

⁴⁴ Ibid., 629–632.

⁴⁵ Ibid., 645.

⁴⁶ Ibid., 593.

⁴⁷ Ibid., 654–655. These “two lessening points of light,” like the “two starry eyes” that seemed to beckon him (l. 490), may be intended to refer to the vision of the maiden.

⁴⁸ Ibid., 689–690.

⁴⁹ “Preface” to Alastor.

⁵⁰ Op. cit., 230.

⁵¹ Ibid., 230.

⁵² Letters of Edward John Trelawny (Oxford: H. Buxton Forman, 1910), pp. 230–231.

⁵³ Op. cit., 230.

⁵⁴ Ibid., 235–239.

⁵⁵ Ibid., 240.

⁵⁶ Ibid., 240.

⁵⁷ Ibid., 243–244.