ABSTRACT
Shelley, The Cenci (1819); New Monthly Magazine, XIII (May 1820), 550–553. The reviewer, a man of some literary sensitivity, seems from his style to have been of Shelley’s age or older. He is familiar with Shelley’s other poetry – probably with the Prometheus Unbound volume – but has chosen to review The Cenci in a critical, though by no means unintelligent way. The arguments he advances on page 551 for not representing horrible crimes are similar to ideas Shelley himself advanced, even in the text of The Cenci itself.
