Volume 3, Number 8 · December 3, 1964
The Last Days of the Poets
By G.M. Matthews
The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Final Years of Byron and Shelley
by A.B.C. Whipple
Harper & Row, 298 pp., $5.00
In February last year the editor of Life International began a series of Literary Landscapes by writing two articles on 'The Italy of Byron and Shelley,' with some striking new photographs by David Lees. To get this material, Mr. Whipple and his photographer had sought out for themselves many of the scenes, cities, and houses in Italy associated with these two poets. The present book is an expansion of the articles in Life, but without the photographs. Its ornamental title comes from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and refers to Italy, not to Romantic poetry, and the author claims it to be unique in concentrating on the 'Italian climax, on the interrelationship of the two poets during this time, and on the influence of Italy's beauty upon their poetry.'
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