This gesture is an act of genuine literary friendship, suggesting an affinity that Coleridge's sympathetic response, after Shelley's drowning, only seems to confirm. [49] Notes[*]An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Coleridge Summer Conference at Cannington, Somerset, 20-26 July 2000.[1]See Hugh Roberts, 'Shelley's Lucretian Imagination', in Shel1ey and the Chaos of H