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 . g Italy with his eyes,[xxiij INTRODUCTION and hearing the message it spoke to his sympathetic heartand poetic spirit. A quarter of a century ago one of Shelley^s most sympa-thetic editors^ declared the only serious obstacles to thegeneral comprehension of Shelley to be his erudition andthe Italian atmosphere which envelops much of his poetry/^Since that time much textual criticism, many biographies,and no end of annotated editions have been offe
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 . g Italy with his eyes,[xxiij INTRODUCTION and hearing the message it spoke to his sympathetic heartand poetic spirit. A quarter of a century ago one of Shelley^s most sympa-thetic editors^ declared the only serious obstacles to thegeneral comprehension of Shelley to be his erudition andthe Italian atmosphere which envelops much of his poetry/^Since that time much textual criticism, many biographies,and no end of annotated editions have been offered in eluci-dation of obscurities or learned allusions. But no attempthas been made to set the poems in their original environ-ment, or to conduct the reader himself into that very Italianatmosphere where they were born. To do this as far asmay be possible, through illustration and the grouping ofletters and passages from note-books loith the poems, sothat the poems may be seen in the making, so to speak, isthe object of the present volume. A. B. , Italy, 1905. * Richard Garnett. [xxiii] THE YEAR 1818 A MONG the Apennines^of The Jpennine in the Ikfht of dayIs a mighty mountain dim and yrey. — Passage of The Apennines, p. 5. WITH SHELLEY IN ITALY THE YEAR 1818 BAGNI DI LUCCA; ESTE; NAPLES INTRODUCTORY jr\ROJCEN in health and spirits and warned by hism~^ physician against the excitement of literary com-position, without a settled abode, and travellingfrom place to place encumbered with a helpless party ofwomen, children, and servants, and, moreover, engaged inthat most depressing of all occupations, house-hunting,we sliould hardly lool^ for numerous or impoHajxt poeticalcreations as the immediate result of Slielleys arrival inItaly. And though in truth the list is not long, it showsat once the impress of the new scenes and experiences, thestrong impidse given by the ideality of Italy. BothShelley and his wife, Mary Shelley, zaere enthusiastictravellers, and
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