ABSTRACT
Shelley, Laon and Cythna (1818), Revolt of Islam (1818), and Rosalind and Helen (1819); review by John Taylor Coleridge, Quarterly Review, XXI (April 1819), 460–471. This review was the one that set Shelley in a rage, caused him first to accuse Southey of being the author and then to suspect Henry Hart Milman (like J. T. Coleridge, an Eton and Oxford contemporary). The other “mountain poet” (p. 461) is Wordsworth (rather than the uncle of the reviewer). The allusions on pp. 463–464 regarding Shelley’s opinions suggest a knowledge of Queen Mab and its notes, as well as Laon and Cythna.
Art. VII. I.—Laon and Cythna, or the Revolution of the Golden City. A Vision of the Nineteenth Century, in the Stanza of Spenser. By Percy B. Shelley. London. 1818.
2. The Revolt of Islam. A Poem, in Twelve Cantos. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. London. 1818.
