This essay finds an echo of a pamphlet written by Charles Cowden Clarke, An
Address to that Quarterly Reviewer who Touched upon Mr. Leigh Hunt's "Stor
y of Rimini" (1816), in Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1821).
The discovery clarifies Shelley's involvement in a philologically informed
Romantic project that sought to re-locate 'genuine,' emphatic diction in mo
dern poetry and thus resist inherited neoclassical literary values.