 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 661848Full view - About this book
 | Francis Thompson - 1909 - 104 pages
...reels with tossing head, if for the Baths of Caracalla with their 'flowering ruins,' the Italian spring and 'the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication,' had been substituted the blear streets of London, the Avernian birds, the anaemic herbage of our parks,... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1909 - 148 pages
...reels with tossing head, if for the Baths of Caracalla with their 'flowering ruins,' the Italian spring and ' the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication,' had been substituted the blear streets of London, the Avernian birds, the anasmic herbage of our parks,... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1909 - 104 pages
...reels with tossing head, if for the Baths of Caracalla with their 'flowering ruins,' the Italian spring and ' the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication,' had been substituted the blear streets of London, the Avernian birds, the anaemic herbage of our parks,... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1910 - 372 pages
...with tossing head, if for the Baths of Caracalla with their " flowering ruins," the Italian spring and " the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication," had been substituted the blear streets of London ; the Avernian birds, the anaemic herbage, of our... | |
 | Helen Rossetti Angeli - 1911 - 420 pages
...poem of the future of mankind were written. In the Preface, Shelley tells us : " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." " Prometheus Unbound" is the revelation of Shelley's fullest and highest powers and of the ideals and... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1911 - 388 pages
...inspiration " of the drama was "the bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication." Led on to discuss poetry and its nature, he calls a poet " the combined product of such internal powers... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1913 - 800 pages
...suspended in the air. The bright bine sky oí Rome, and the effect ol the vigorous awakening spring in the divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches...spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration ol the drama.'— Preface to the ' Promethetu.' These baths may be considered almost as a detached... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 pages
...of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." It was the second and third acts which he completed at the Baths of Caracalla. Prometheus had haunted... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 pages
...Melancholy! MILTON, II Penseroso, 12. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. SHELLEY, Prom. Unb., Pref. All the northern downs | In clearest air ascending, showed far off | A surface... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 pages
...arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, arid the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspirations to this drama." The myth of Prometheus is one that appealed strongly to the mind of Shelley.... | |
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