CHAPTER II.

Particulars of Early Life in London--Friendships and First Poems--Henry Stephens--Felton Mathew--Cowden Clarke--Leigh Hunt: his Literary and Personal Influence--John Hamilton Reynolds--James Rice--Cornelius Webb--Shelley--Haydon--Joseph Severn--Charles Wells--Personal Characteristics-- Determination to publish. [1814-April, 1817] 18