1. [J.T. Coleridge], ‘Laon and Cythna, or the Revolution of the Golden City. A Vision of the Nineteenth Century, in the Stanza of Spencer. By Percy B. Shelley’, Quarterly Review, 42 (1819), 460–70.
2. Kelvin Everest, “‘Mechanism of a kind yet Unattempted”: The Dramatic Action of Prometheus Unbound’, Durham University Journal, 85 (1993), 237–45 (p. 239).
3. Angela Leighton believes that Prometheus creates the furies himself: ‘The Furies are only helpless externalisations of what Prometheus can “know” (I.459) and “think” (I. 475) and “imagine” (I. 478)’, Shelley and the Sublime: An Interpretation of the MajorPoems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 86.
4. Isabel Armstrong notes the ambiguity of Shelley’s word ‘through’ elsewhere in the poem; the fury’s use of the word in line 483 also permits this variety of interpretations: ‘burning behind and shining through, burning by means of, burning up, penetrating through’, Language as a Living Form in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Sussex: Harvester Press, 1982), p. 137.
5. Judith Chernaik writes of ‘the invisible principle of life within the visible flesh’, The Lyrics of Shelley (Cleveland and London: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1972), p. 56.