 | Algernon Graves - 1906 - 416 pages
...ruins of Rome. " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the baths of Caracallas, among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of Spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - 1906 - 330 pages
...They are denuded of the vines and flowers that adorned them when, as Shelley says, he wrote his poem " among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous...platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." Now as then Rome lies on one side, with her many domes and towers; on the other are the mountains,... | |
 | 1908 - 554 pages
...flowery glades, and thickets . of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | Arthur Clutton-Brock - 1909 - 348 pages
...now was given up to the composition of "Prometheus Unbound." "The poem," he says in his preface, " was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." In a letter to Peacock he gave a beautiful and more elaborate description of the place, "overgrown... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 632 pages
...the precipice. This you ascend, 1 In his preface to " Prometheus Unbound," Shelley says: "This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 948 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | Helen Rossetti Angeli - 1911 - 420 pages
...the great poem of the future of mankind were written. In the Preface, Shelley tells us : " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | Henry James Forman - 1911 - 484 pages
...has since destroyed. Shelley tells us, in the preface to the " Prometheus Unbound," that " this poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." Those thickets are no longer there. The Baths of Diocletian, built about a century after those of Caracalla,... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - 1911 - 360 pages
...their 'flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees . . . extended in ever- winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air,' supplements the lyrical glades and labyrinths of the Prometheus Unbound, which in the spring of 1819... | |
 | Daniel J. MacDonald - 1912 - 160 pages
...work was completed in Home during the summer and fall of 1819. "The poem,'" he says in the preface, "was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." Prometheus Unbound is considered by many to be Shelley's most important work. Mr. JA Symonds declares... | |
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This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended... 
