(McCarthy's Shelley's Early Life, page 117.) However this may be, the precipitation with which the Shelleys quitted York, scarcely giving Hogg notice of their resolution, is insufficiently accounted for in his biography.
The destination of the travellers was Keswick.

Here they engaged lodgings for a time, and then moved into a furnished house.

Probably Shelley was attracted to the lake country as much by the celebrated men who lived there, as by the beauty of its scenery, and the cheapness of its accommodation.

He had long entertained an admiration for Southey's poetry, and was now beginning to study Wordsworth and Coleridge.

But if he hoped for much companionship with the literary lions of the lakes, he was disappointed.