ABSTRACT
Shelley, Revolt of Islam (1818); review by ?John Chalk Claris (“Arthur Brooke”), Man of Kent, Nov. 21, 1818, 157–160. Though there is no firm evidence for the identity of the correspondent (who signed himself with the pointing hand in emulation of Leigh Hunt’s Examiner signature), a likely candidate is young John Chalk Claris (17961866), a life-long resident of Canterbury, later editor of the Kent Herald, and in 1822 author (under his regular pseudonym “Arthur Brooke”) of Elegy on the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, which he dedicated to Hunt.
