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DURING most of their sojourn in Italy the Shelleys had been restless itinerants in the manner of many Englishmen who visited the Continent after the Napoleonic wars. By 1820 they had visited most of the ordinary sights; having lost two children to the vagaries of Italian climate and not intending to return immediately to England, they questioned whether to settle in a congenial part of Italy or turn to other, unseen lands—Spain, Greece, the Middle East, or even India.1 That they remained in the proximity of Pisa until Shelley’s death was, as Mary Shelley later wrote, due more to chance than to plan or inclination (see “Note on the Poems of 1820,” OSA, p. 636).
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On the “Masons”—George Tighe and Margaret, Countess of Mount Cashell—see Edward C. McAleer, The Sensitive Plant: A Life of Lady Mount Cashell (Chapel Hill, N. C., 1958).
Bodleian MS Shelley adds. e. 7, pp. 13–38. Partially transcribed by Richard Garnett in Relics of Shelley (London, 1862), pp. 4–13.
“Southey and Landor: Second Conversation,” Imaginary Conversations, ed. Charles G. Crump (London, 1891), IV, 253.
Massey, “Shelley’s ‘Music, When Soft Voices Die’: Text and Meaning,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology LIX (1960), 430–38;
see also E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Journal of English and Germanic Philology, LX (1961), 296–98.
The fullest account of the so-called “Masi affair” and its aftermath is to be found in chapters 6 and 7 of C. L. Cline, Byron, Shelley and their Pisan Circle (London, 1952).
See William H. Marshall, Byron, Shelley, Hunt and “The Liberal” (Philadelphia, 1960).
and Kenneth Muir, “Shelley’s Heirs,” New Penguin Writing ed. John Lehmann (London, 1945), 117–32.
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Reiman, D.H. (1969). Eyeless Charioteer. In: Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Griffin Authors Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02954-9_8
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