#OTD in 1818.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy (to escape its "tyranny civil and religious"), intending to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron.
Over the next four years produced what Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill call "some of the finest poetry of the Romantic period".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Shelley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1529
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy (to escape its "tyranny civil and religious"), intending to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron.
Over the next four years produced what Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill call "some of the finest poetry of the Romantic period".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Shelley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1529
#books #literature #poetry
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