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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

Anna Benneson McMahan · 1905 · Scanned text · Free in the US

69,160 words · about 4 h 51 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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About this book

Author
Anna Benneson McMahan
Language
English
Published
1905
Length
69,160 words · about 4 h 51 min
Sections
17 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (17)

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Front matter

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Being a Selection of the Poems and Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Introduction to the Year 1818 3

Passage of the Apennines 5

Letter from Milan 6

Letter from Bagni di Lucca 9

Extracts from "Rosalind and Helen" 10

Letter from Florence 13

To Mary Shelley 14

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills 16

Marenghi 29

Julian and Maddalo 36

Letter from Yenice 59

Letter from Este 62

Letter from Bologna 64

Stanzas "Written in Dejection, near Naples 73

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Page

Introduction to the Year 1819 87

Eragment : To Italy 90

Fragment : A Roman's Chamber 90

Fragment : Rome and Nature 91

Extracts from " Prometheus Unbound " 103

Extracts from " The Cenci " 127

The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci 143

Love's Philosophy 145

Ode to the West Wind 146

The Indian Serenade 149

Introduction to the Years 1820 and IS 21 153

Letter to Maria Gisborne 157

The Cloud 169

To a Skylark .' ... 172

Ode to Liberty 176

Ode to Naples 195

Autumn : A Dirge 202

The Tower of Famine 203

Epipsychidion 204

Adonais 227

[viii]

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Letter from Florence 243

Letter from Ravenna 244

Letter from Ravenna 247

Letter from Pisa 248

The Boat on tlie Serchio 249

Evening : Ponte al Mare. Pisa 254

Chorus to Hellas 255

NTRODUCTION TO THE YeAR 1822 259

To Jane : The Invitation 264

To Jane : The Recollection 267

With a Guitar : to Jane 270

To Jane: The Keen Stars were Twinkling 274

A Dirge 275

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici 275

The Isle 277

Letter from Lerici 278

Letter from Lerici 279

Critical Notices of the Sculpture in the Florence

Gallery 280

On the Niobe 280

The Minerva 282

On the Yenus called Anadyomene 285

Michael Angelo's Bacchus 286

NDEX 289

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Page

Intkoduction to the Year 1819 87

Fragment : To Italy 90

Fragment : A Roman's Chamber 90

Fragment : Rome and Nature 91

Extracts from " Prometheus Unbound " 103

Extracts from " The Cenci " 127

The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci 143

Love's Philosophy 145

Ode to the West Wind 146

The Indian Serenade 149

Introdtjction to the Years 1820 and 1821 153

Letter to Maria Gisborne 157

The Cloud 169

To a Skylark : ... 172

Ode to Liberty 176

Ode to Naples 195

Autumn : A Dirge 202

The Tower of Famine 203

Epipsychidion 204

Adonais 227

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Page

Letter from Florence 243

Letter from Ravenna 244

Letter from Raveinia 247

Letter from Pisa 248

The Boat on tlie Serchio 249

Evening : Ponte al Mare. Pisa 254

Chorus to Hellas 255

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