 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
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pages
...and autumnal regret. Shelley's drama was composed under the inspiration of 'the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication'. The contrast epitomizes the difference between the two eras. Gibbon sits among the ruins and looks... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 pages
...of Rome," 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." 68 Shelley, like other Romantic poets, drew inspiration from an immediate aesthetic encounter with... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 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... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 pages
...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...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.' [...] No 'monstrous, inform blocks' now offer the climber a lead up the sheer walls ('When these great... | |
 | Teddi Lynn Chichester, Teddi Chichester Bonca - 1999 - 336 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. (133) In fact, only Acts II and III were produced in this paradisal setting, but this passage reveals... | |
 | Timothy J. Clark - 1999 - 474 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...even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.3 The tears in the eyes of Heartfield's new man will soon be as incomprehensible as scratches... | |
 | Samuel Lyndon Gladden - 2002 - 376 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama" (133). Shelley's composition of Prometheus Unbound was thus inspired to no minor degree by the vigor... | |
 | Jason Gaiger, Paul Wood - 2004 - 374 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. 5 Plate 8 Tina Modotti, i\Ien Reading 'El Machete', 1924, photograph, 17.1 x 23.5 cm. Courtesy of Throckmorton... | |
 | George H. Sullivan - 2006 - 404 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 second indignity — perhaps a necessary evil, but an evil nonetheless — came some fifty years... | |
 | John David Rhodes - 2007 - 221 pages
...among the flowery glades, and thickets of odiferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches...even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.34 Although the city inspired his "Prometheus," Shelley offers us a clearer picture of what this... | |
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