This chapter begins by distinguishing some European and American framing of Shelley as a politically salient poet, made evident in commentary at the bicentenary of his death. It continues by accepting the negative judgements in Leavis’s notorious critique of ‘Ode to the West Wind’, reversed as positive features of Shelley’s poetry. Identified as prosodic velocity and metaphorical dynamism, these features are deemed to characterise ‘lyric trouble’. They are key to Shelley’s acknowledged influence in poems by Francis Thompson and Tom Raworth, while specific Shelleyan intertexts are identified in poems by Edward Dorn and Keston Sutherland.