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 . six- 1 Shelleys English and American editors have perpetuated Mrs. Shelleyswrong writing of this word as Via Reggio. —Ed. 2 The circumstances are related by Robert Browning in a letter datedMarch, 1877- Leigh Hunt told me that the Lamia was the only copyprocurable in Italy. That he lent it to Shelley with due injunctions to becareful of the loan on that account, and that Shelley replied emphatically: I will return it to you with my own hands. He
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 . six- 1 Shelleys English and American editors have perpetuated Mrs. Shelleyswrong writing of this word as Via Reggio. —Ed. 2 The circumstances are related by Robert Browning in a letter datedMarch, 1877- Leigh Hunt told me that the Lamia was the only copyprocurable in Italy. That he lent it to Shelley with due injunctions to becareful of the loan on that account, and that Shelley replied emphatically: I will return it to you with my own hands. He told me also of the con-solation there was to him in the circumstance that the book had been foundin Shelleys bosom, together with the right hand — evidently thrust there,as his custom was, when having been struck by any passage in whateverbook he might be reading with a friend, he paused to enjoy and pronounceupon it. This circumstance Leigh Hunt considered decisive as to the sud-denness and comparative painlessness of the death. ... On my askingLeigh Hunt if the book still existed, he replied, No, I threw it into the [ 262 ] S b- ^? i. ^ c c3 :_,x; jT ;lh THE YEAR 1822 teenth^ has been told vividly by the eye-witnesses, Tre-lawiiey. Hunt, and Byron. Tradition at Viareggio still points to the spot on thesands near the edge of the pine forest, zahere the fineralpyre xoas made; but its picturesqueness and desolationhave been banished by the encroachments of a popularbathing-place, and the spade is noxo (190Jf,) about todestroy all vestiges of the spot by the erection of a newbuilding. The oldest inhabitant, aged ninety-five, claimsto remember the event, but her reminiscences are tooconfused to be trustworthy. The ashes were preserved and buried, as was fitting,in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome — the spot of ivhichShelley had written^ ^^ It might make one in love zcithdeath, to think that ojie shmdd be buried in so szoeet aplace. Fitting requiem of the poet are his own wo
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