. Shelley, the man and the poet . .^---iV/? Air V^V. FACSIMILE OF A SKETCH MADE BY SHELLEY OUTSIDE THEFOI>DED MS. OF THE ELYSIAN FIELDS I THE REVOLT OF ISLAM 143 then speaks of the sources from which the materials forthe imagery of the poem have been drawn. I have trodden the glaciers of the Alps, and livedunder the eye of Mont Blanc. I have been a wandereramong distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers,and seen the sun rise and set, and the stars come forth,whilst I have sailed night and day down a rapid streamamong mountains. I have seen populous cities, and havewatched the passion
. Shelley, the man and the poet . .^---iV/? Air V^V. FACSIMILE OF A SKETCH MADE BY SHELLEY OUTSIDE THEFOI>DED MS. OF THE ELYSIAN FIELDS I THE REVOLT OF ISLAM 143 then speaks of the sources from which the materials forthe imagery of the poem have been drawn. I have trodden the glaciers of the Alps, and livedunder the eye of Mont Blanc. I have been a wandereramong distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers,and seen the sun rise and set, and the stars come forth,whilst I have sailed night and day down a rapid streamamong mountains. I have seen populous cities, and havewatched the passions, which rise and spread, and sink andchange, amongst assembled multitudes of men. I haveseen the theatre of the more visible ravages of tyrannyand war ;_ cities and villages reduced to scattered groupsof black and roofless houses, and the naked inhabitantssitting famished upon their desolated thresholds. Inthis preface too he separates himself from poets, like Words-worth, who seemed to him too quick despairers of thefuture of man, because of the
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