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...sentimental journey that was to take the Poet away from England for ever, lead him at last to Greece and death at the age of 36. Byron in Italy is an account of what Byron did while he was waiting for death - his friendship with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his affairs with various Venetian slum women and men ; his services as a gigolo-extraordinary to dumpy, dull, married Countess Teresa Guiccioli. It is also an account of his most active years as a romantic revolutionist, and of some of his most productive years as a poet...
...French) ; De Quincey brought him toward Wordsworth; Hazlitt, by devious means, to the metaphysicians. He read The Origin of Species and a life of Buddha; he bought a Gray's Anatomy and set his hopes toward medicine. Those hopes were forgotten when he happened on Chaucer, Keats and Shelley, who opened "a world where incredible beauty was daily bread and breath of life...
...determined to live in that world, from then on. He read Milton through three times in three months. He found William Morris, whom he still regards as "the one sensible man of modern times." Under Shelley's influence he became a vegetarian. Under the influence of everything in sight he began to try his hand at writing...
...Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian; Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience; The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...professors who resigned were members of Haverford's English department. Dr. Leslie Hotson, Canada-born, is renowned as a "literary detective." Through old court records he tracked down the name of the murderer* of Playwright Christopher Marlowe, and he ferreted out long-lost letters that Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to his wife after he ran away with Mary Godwin...