Title: Recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron
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.
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, Biography, British, Death and burial, English Poets, Friends and associates, Greece War of Independence, 1821-1829, History, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Last years, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822, Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Byron, george gordon byron, baron, 1788-1824, Poets, biography, Greece, history, 19th century, War of Independence (Greece : 1821-1829) fast (OCoLC)fst01355287, English Authors, Correspondence
Places: Great Britain, Greece, Italy
People: Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881), George Gordon Byron Byron Baron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Time periods: 1789-1900, 19th century, War of Independence, 1821-1829