Word: shelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he left Harvard in 1939 at the end of his Sophomore year, Brown has worked on Time and for the past year has been a member of the New Yorker editorial staff. In 1938 he won the $500 Shelley Prize for Poetry. Thompson has contributed to the New Republic and Poetry Magazine...
...Indians and the Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch and hearty...
Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...
Edward Trelawny knew Shelley some six months, Byron two years, but he wrote (30 years later) the most colorful firsthand report of their strange doings-Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. Last fortnight Margaret Armstrong (Fanny Kemble) reported the even stranger doings of Edward Trelawny, showed him to have been more Byronic than Byron...
...return to England was perfectly timed. Byron had written the early cantos of Childe Harold. Young ladies were dreaming of giaours, Manfreds, Mazeppas, with wild eyes, black mustaches, long cloaks, wicked pasts. In Lausanne one day Trelawny read Shelley's Queen Mab. He rushed to Pisa to meet the satanic author, was astonished at Shelley's "flushed, feminine and artless face," soon felt as romantic about Shelley as he had about De Ruyter...