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Title: With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 McMahan, Anna Benneson
Subjects: Poetry of places -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel Poetry
Publisher: Chicago : McClurg
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ong in an uTifinished state, was found hy Mrs.Shelley among the papers, and at her urgency fnished.SJielley himself said of it, / lay no stress on it o?iezvay or the other. Considered as a whole, the worldperhaps shares Shelleys opinion, hut there are some pas-sages which must he rescued from this general indiffer-ence for their charming pictures of the Italian landscape.The scene is laid on the shores of Lalce Como, in whose^^divine solitude Shelley had vainly tried to find ahome; and its pictures of the ^^forests solitude, the chestnut woods, and lawny dells, hear plainly theimpress of Bagni di Lucca, where the discarded poemwas talien up and finished. Este, their second home, has its poet laureate in the Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, while theletters of this time, glowing with the freshness of firstimpressions, are scarcely less poetical than the verses.Often, indeed, the letters furnish the precise setting andconditions zvhich led to the poetical inspiration, and are (4)
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THE YEAR 1818 glimpses into the poefs inmr mind, rough draughts of thepoem, as it were. They conjii-m what, indeed, we shoulddivine zvithout them, that the poems of this year werexvrittenfor their own sake and to express Shelleys pureJoy in that living spirit zvhich he conceived Nature to be.In a time like our ozon, lohen the interest in scientifictheories concerning the processes of nature is so absorb-ing, all the more zoelcome is a voice like Shelleys tospeak of the spiritual side, the side seen by the artist andlover of Nature for her ozvn sake. PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES Listen, listen, Mary mine,To the whisper of tlie Apennine,It bursts on the roof like the thunders roar,Or like the sea on a northern shore.Heard in its raging ebb and flowBy the captives pent in the cave below.The Apennine in the light of dayIs a mighty mountain dim and grey,Which between the earth and sky doth lay;But when night comes, a chaos dreadOn the dim starlight then is spread,And the Apennine walks abroad

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