Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author
In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career behind him. He became a close companion to them and their circle, and this collection of his reminiscences is one of the most fresh and intriguing documents of the Romantic age. It records his initial meeting with a cynical and flippant Byron, his impressions of a youthful, otherworldly Shelley and, most memorably, the poet's death at sea and the subsequent burning of his body on the sand. Trelawny's Records combine vigorous prose, vivid description a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-139279-0
- EAN: 9780141392790
- Produktnummer: 17832183
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 844 KB
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Edward John Trelawny was born in 1792, the son of an army officer. After a short term in the navy he shipped for India, but deserted at Bombay. For several years he led an adventurous life in India, but eventually settled in England. He met Shelley and Byron at Pisa in 1822, and passed nearly every day with one or both of them until the drowning of Shelley. Permission having been refused him to write the life of Shelley, he began an account of his own life in the Adventures of a Younger Son (1835), followed much later by a second part: Recollections of Shelley and Byron (1858). He married a third time, but the irregularity of his life estranged him from his wife, and he died at Sompting, near Worthing, on the 13th of August 1881. His ashes were buried in Rome by the side of those of Shelley.
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