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In March 1817 Shelley and Mary moved into Albion House at Marlow, and remained there for a year. Marlow was only twelve miles from their previous home at Virginia Water, and even nearer Bracknell and Eton, scenes of remoter and more disturbing memories for Shelley. He was glad to live by the Thames again, and on one of its loveliest stretches, for the Thames was among the few fixed points in his restless life: from 1802 until he left England in 1818 he spent more than half of every year, except the years of travel, 1811–12, within ten miles of the river.
Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.
Spenser, Prothalamion
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Notes To IV: The Last of England
A. Comfort, Darwin and the Naked Lady (1961), p. 82.
Iliad, XII, 200–7 (quoted in Plato’s lon); Choephori, 247–9; Aeneid, XI, 751–6; Metamorphoses, Bk. IV; Faerie Queene, I, v, 8. See also B. Taylor, Animal Painting in England (1955), p. 47.
P. Frank, Einstein, his Life and Times (1948), p. 66.
See A. M. D. Hughes, Shelley, Poetry and Prose, pp. 189–90, and H. M. Richmond, Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. II (1962), p. 65.
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King-Hele, D. (1984). The Last of England. In: Shelley. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06803-6_4
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