Identifier: shelleymanpoet00clut (find matches)
Title: Shelley, the man and the poet
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur), 1868-1924
Subjects: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Publisher: London Methuen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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trees remained inMarys memory. The whole scene, she says, was of un-imaginable beauty. But for various reasons she almosthated the spot, even before she underwent the greatestsorrow of her life in it. The natives, she says, were wilderthan the place. The people of San Terenzo were savageswho would go by howling on the beach, the womendancing among the waves. They had great difficulty ingetting even the poorest food. Had we been wreckedon an island in the South Seas, we could scarcely havefelt ourselves farther from civilisation and comfort. Be-sides this she was not in a fit state of health to enduresuch a life, and was troubled, perhaps, by Shelleys affec-tion for Jane Williams. However that may be, there isno doubt that she was unhappy during the last monthsof her married life, and that there was some estrangementbetween her and Shelley, which no doubt would havepassed away, but which she remembered with vain bitter-ness afterwards. Trelawny tells us that the Villa Magni looked more
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ir as THE LAST YEAR 271 like a boat- or bathing-house than a place to live in. Itconsisted of a terrace or ground floor, unpaved, and usedfor storing boat-gear and fishing-tackle, and of a singlestorey over it, divided into a hall or saloon and four smallrooms, which had once been white-washed. There was onechimney for cooking. . . . The only good thing about itwas a verandah facing the sea and almost over it. Theservants lived in an outhouse. The house was so nearthe sea that in a storm spray swept the verandah anddashed against the windows. Both Mary and Trelawnyremark that it was like being in a ship. Shelley was boyishly eager for the arrival of the newboat. Its design did not please Trelawny. Wilhams hadbrought with him, on leaving England, the sections of aboat as a model to build from, designed by a naval officer.Both he and Shelley insisted that their craft should bebuilt exactly on the same lines, although Captain Robertsand the builder at Genoa protested. ** Williams, saysTr

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