The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER XII. MR. MACCARTHY'S DISCOVERIES TOUCHING THE OXONIAN

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_A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things_--Evidence that the Poem was Published--Reasons for Thinking it may never have been Published--Reasons for Thinking that, if the Poem was Published, it was promptly Suppressed--Did Shelley contribute Prose and Poetry to the _Oxford Herald_?--Spurious Letter to the Editor of the _Statesman_--Shelley's First Letter to Leigh Hunt--His way of Introducing himself to Strangers--Did he at the Same Moment Think Well and Ill of his Father?--Miss Janetta Phillips's Poems--E. & W. Phillips, the Worthing Printers.