JOHN LUCAS20 Dowden's Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench,
1886), while intending to be fully supportive of Shelley, had the opposite effect
on many readers, who were or who claimed to be shocked by its many
revelations about the irregularity of Shelley's life, especially the poet's love
affairs, his two marriages, and his passionate avowal of the rights of free love.
21 Matthew Arnold, "Shelley," Nineteenth Century 23 (1888), 23-39, reprinted in
Arnold, The Last Word, ed. R.H. Super, The Complete Prose Works of
Matthew Arnold, 11 vols. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,
i960-1977), XI, 320; further volume and page references appear in parenth-
eses.
22 Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social
Criticism, in The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, V, 106.
23 R.H. Super, in Arnold, Culture and Anarchy, 471.
24 "Thomas Maitland" [Robert Buchanan] "The Fleshly School of Poetry," Con-
temporary Review 18 (1871), 335. "Thomas Maitland" was the pseudonym
attached to Buchanan's essay.
25 Dante Gabriel Rossetti replied to Buchanan's "The Fleshly School of Poetry," in
"The Stealthy School of Criticism," Athenaeum, 16 December 1871, 792-94.
Swinburne responded at length to Buchanan's pamphlet The Fleshly School of
Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day (London: Strahan, 1872) in Under the
Microscope (London: Hotten, 1872).
26 Buchanan, "The Monkey and the Microscope," St. Paul's Magazine 9 (1872),
240.
27 "Thomas Maitland" [Algernon Charles Swinburne], "The Devil's Due," Exam-
iner, 11 December 1875, 1388.
28 Richard Ellmann writes of Wilde as an undergraduate torn between Walter
Pater, the apostle of aestheticism who taught at Brasenose College, Oxford, and
John Ruskin, the most eminent nineteenth-century art critic. Wilde was certainly
influenced by Ruskin, for a short time at least; he even helped dig the planned
road to Ferry Hinksey near Oxford. But Wilde's leaning toward Pater's aestheti-
cism becomes more pronounced as his Oxford career develops; see Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), 47-52.
29 [John Morley,] "Mr Swinburne's New Poems," Saturday Review 22 (1866),
145-
30 In his famous "red" letter of 2 August 1871, Gerard Manley Hopkins informed
Robert Bridges: "Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist... England
has grown hugely wealthy but this wealth has not reached the working classes
... The more I look the more black and deservedly black the future looks." The
Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, ed. Claude Colleer
Abbott (London: Oxford University Press, 1935), 27-28.
31 WH. Mallock, Memoirs of Life and Literature (New York: Harper and
Brothers, 1920), 73; further page references appear in parentheses.
32 WH. Mallock, Every Man His Own Poet, or the Inspired Singer's Recipe Book,
second edition (London: Simkin, Marshall, 1877), reprinted in Victorian Poets
after 18 jo, Dictionary of Literary Biography, eds. William E. Fredeman and Ira
B. Nadel, 200 vols. to date (Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1985),
XXXV, 298.
33 Arnold, "Shelley," in The Last Word, 327. Here Arnold is quoting from his
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