On Marx's views of Shelley and Byron, I would check SS Prawer's Marx and World Literature and Demsetz's Marx and the Poets. Don't have either with me; they are old works. Somewhere in those four volumes on Marx's social and political thought edited by Jessop there is a piece on Marx's and Engel's debt to Romantic thought. Engels translated Carlyle, I believe. Another work to check could possibly be Michael Lowy's book on Romantic thought. I don't have that with me, either. Ah but just checked it on google books. Lowy and Sayre. They argue that Shelley was not a proto-socialist and that the comparison with Byron is misleading. It's not unreasonable to believe that Marx would have agreed with Lowy and Sayre. But they do quote verse that shows how radical and exuberant Shelley's vision was.
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