| Augustus Hare - 2005 - 361 pages
...It was seated on these walls, now so bare and hideous, that Shelley wrote his ' Prometheus Unbound.' 'This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caraealla, among the iiowery glades and thickets of odoriferous Wossomiîîg trees which are esÉemled... | |
| John David Rhodes - 2007 - 221 pages
...incomprehensible. Shelley, for instance, claims to have written his verse drama "Prometheus Unbound" upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odiferous blossoming trees which ace extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms... | |
| Samuel Manning - 1885 - 242 pages
...enthusiastic admiration of innumerable visitors. Shelley, in the preface of his Prometheus Unbound, says, " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in everwidening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - 1960 - 248 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... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1889 - 600 pages
...Shelley sat and wrote " Prometheus Unbound," as he relates in his preface. " This poem," he tells us, " 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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