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According to Tinker and Lowry, " a draft of the first twenty-eight lines of the poem " was written in pencil " on the back of a folded sheet of paper containing notes on the career of Empedocles ".

Allott concludes that the notes are probably from around 1849-50.

" Empedocles on Etna ", again according to Allott, was probably written 1849-52 ; the notes on Empedocles are likely to be contemporary with the writing of that poem.