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" This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended... "
A Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy: Including the Papal States ... - Page 351
by John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - 684 pages
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Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano)

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1913 - 800 pages
...on these walls, now so bare and hideous, that Shelley wrote his marvellous ' Prometheus Unbound.' ' This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths oí Caracalla, among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming 1 It Is often cited...
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Studien zu Shelleys lyrik, Issues 1-4

Herbert Huscher - 1919 - 168 pages
...vonßishopsgate und Windsor Forest geschrieben; vom „Prometheus Unbound" sagt der Autor selbst in der Preface: „This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspeuded in the air. The bright...
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The Dramatic Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1922 - 436 pages
...the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountain8 ous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright...
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Selections from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1915 - 278 pages
...April 1819, that the second and third acts of the drama were composed. "This Poem," Shelley writes, "was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright...
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Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity

Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi - 1992 - 332 pages
...over by huge caves. In other words, it is a scene very like the one surrounding Shelley as he wrote in the Baths of Caracalla, "among the flowery glades,...odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air" (SPP 133)....
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright...
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Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority

Teddi Lynn Chichester, Teddi Chichester Bonca - 1999 - 336 pages
...Preface, Shelley himself felt the invigorating effects of the spring as he composed Prometheus Unbound: This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright...
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Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism

Timothy J. Clark - 1999 - 474 pages
...4 (facing page) Pablo Picasso: Italian Woman, oil on linen, 98.5 X 70.5, 1919 (Private collection) This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright...
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Shelley's Textual Seductions: Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works

Samuel Lyndon Gladden - 2002 - 376 pages
...Utopia Shelley's Preface foregrounds the importance of the natural landscape to Prometheus Unbound: "This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright...
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Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader

Jason Gaiger, Paul Wood - 2004 - 374 pages
...(coffee and biscotti and interactive video), is as overgrown and labyrinthine as Shelley's dream of Rome. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright...
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