Having just completed a political biography of Shelley (Pluto Press), I was delighted to see that the “lost” poem, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, written in 1811 in support of Peter Finnerty, has been bought by the Bodleian Library (Report, 11 November) and is at last available online for all to read.
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