Recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron
By: Edward John Trelawny.
Series: Revolution and romanticism, 1789-1834
Publisher: Woodstock Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881 -- Friends and associates.; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Death and burial.; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Death and burial.; British -- Greece -- History -- 19th century.; British -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.; Poets, English -- Homes and haunts -- Italy.; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1789-1900.
Description: "'I have met today the personification of my Corsair,' Byron wrote to Teresa Guiccioli in January 1822. 'He sleeps with the poem under his pillow, and all his past adventures and present manners aim at this personification.' Trelawny was undoubtedly a traveller, an adventurer, a teller of tall tales, and he amused Byron. Though too much of a fantasist to be a wholly reliable witness, he gives us an immensely attractive account of Byron (critical) and Shelley (friendly) in the period 1822-4.

He uttered pagan incantations over the burning body of Shelley on the beach at Viareggio and saved his heart from the fire. Later he accompanied Byron to Greece."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: London : Moxon, 1858.