 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
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1901 - 712 pages
...air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinett climate, and the new life with which it drenches the...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. The imagery which I have employed will be fi in in I. in many instances, to have been drawn from the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1915 - 592 pages
...hours, we know, it was written : the vigorous awakening of the Roman spring around him as he wrote, and ' the new life with which it drenches the spirits...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama'; The speech is almost everywhere lyrical in temper where not in form, and the ardour of Shelley suffuses... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - 1918 - 358 pages
...beauty of poetical description peculiarly his own." Shelley himself put it even more strongly: "The blue sky of Rome and the effect of the vigorous awakening...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." With the exception of "Ozymandias" and the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," every one of Shelley's greatest... | |
 | Herbert Huscher - 1919 - 168 pages
...blue sky of Home, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, arid the new life with which it drenches the spirits even...intoxication, were the Inspiration of this drama." Dieser Art zu schaffen entspricht auch die Ausdrucksweise Shelleys. Obwohl sich, wie wir sahen, in... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 504 pages
...tella us how he came by it : 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. In The Cenci (1819) he tries to portray absolute evil, as hi Prometheus perfect goodness ; and our... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1922 - 436 pages
...arches suspended in the air. 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. The imagery which I have employed will be found, in many instances, to have been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1915 - 278 pages
...arches suspended in the air. 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." He describes the Baths of Caracalla at length on 23 March 1819, in a letter to Thomas Love Peacock,... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 500 pages
...tells us how he came by it : 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. In The Cenci (1819) he tries to portray absolute evil, as in Prometheus perfect goodness ; and our... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1926 - 758 pages
...the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divmest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. The imagery which I have employed will be iounHrifi many instances, to have been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Ian Jack - 1984 - 214 pages
...Rome', as he wrote in the preface to Prometheus Unbound, 'and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.' Although he did not believe himself endowed with dramatic talent, he had been reading the Greek dramatists... | |
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