Word: shelleyans
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When he retired to the granitic little island domain of Caprera, between Corsica and Sardinia (much of it paid for by English friends), Garibaldi dreamed of a Shelleyan end-to be burned, like the poet, on the beach. When he died in 1882, he was instead given the usual Christian burial on Caprera. Nature supplied the Garibaldian touch. A melodramatic storm came up, and the vast granite block that now covers his body cracked and broke...
...front was being pierced in a dozen places by nostalgic enemy soldiers, alone or in force, all pining to embrace their mothers and discover if the cow had calved." Eventually, the author himself began to long for home and Mother; aided by his native humor, he let go the "Shelleyan fantasy" of the Cork rebellion and settled in Dublin, with Mother, to try his hand at writing...
...audience reasonably sophisticated that Maurice Browne and Robert Nichols address their play about the Shelleyan young physicist who discovers the secret of the atom, and causes an upheaval in the cabinet chamber at 10 Downing Street by his presentation of the consequences thereof. And perhaps in this play more than in most others, one is acutely conscious of the author's difficulties. The time of the play is tomorrow, and certainly any solution but the scientific one of a cosmological problem, and one which seems as valid as this, strikes an excitement-craving audience as a lame solution indeed...
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