OF THE LAST DAYS OF SHELLEY AND BYRON. BY E. J. TRELAWNY. "No living poet ever arrived at the fulness of his fame; the jury which SHELLEY'S Defence of Poetry. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. M DCCC LVIII. PREFACEЕ. ANY details of the lives of men whose opinions have had a marked influence upon mankind, or from whose works we have derived pleasure or profit, cannot but be interesting. This conviction induces me to record some facts regarding Shelley and Byron, two of the last of the true Poets. The matter contained in this small Volume concerning them is derived partly from notes taken and letters written at the time the events occurred, and partly from memory. I wrote what is now printed, not systematically, but just as the incidents occurred to me, thinking that with the rough draft before me it would be an easy, if not an agreeable, task to re-write the whole in a connected form; |