Shelley's writing during the actual sailing voyage included parts of a long letter to Thomas Love Peacock, a will in which he divided his estate evenly between Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont, a sketchbook full of rough drawings of the lake, and the autobiographical opening of "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," which he may have completed after returning to Montalègre, but which Michael Erkehlenz, editor of The Geneva Notebook of Percy Bysshe Shelley, supposes was drafted during the actual boat voyage - a credible explanation of the chronology of composition, since many pages of the notebook have been lost and no first draft of the poem survives. Shelley's lines, "Sudden, thy shadow fell on me; / I shrieked, and clasped my hands in extacy!" (59-60), are un-ironic, and the poem may not be overdy polidcal, though political thought is manifest, whether coverdy or direcdy, in all Shelley's writing; nonetheless, Forest Pyle has made a creditable foray into the poem's polidcal substrata. In a note to the poems of 1816, Mary Shelley writes that Shelley was reading Julie when he conceived "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" {CompletePoetry 3.1069), and Shelley's letter to Peacock referring to his reading of the novel lends support to the assertion (Letters 1.485). To redress an imbalance and to fill a gap, this reading of the intertextual dialogue between Shelley's lyric and the novel which inspired it proposes historical influence as a basis for a dialogic intertext; the "fast influencing" ("Mont Blanc," 38) and "an unremitting interchange" (39) between...