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#OTD 1809 Byron and Hobhouse land at Lisbon at the start of their European tour. Byron records his first sight of the city in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
"What beauties doth Lisboa first unfold!
Her image floating on that noble tide,
Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold"
#OnThisDay 1819 the Shelleys visit "the Palazzo Colonna & see the picture of Beatrice Cenci..."
#OTD 1819 Mary Shelley writes "After dinner walk to the Coliseum"
#OTD 1819 Shelley writes from Rome of the "labyrinthine recesses" of the Baths of Caracalla, "hidden & woven over by the wild growth of weeds & ivy. Never was any desolation more sublime"
Here's Severn's posthumous portrait of Shelley in the Caracalla, now at @Keats_Shelley
#OTD Shelley writes to his publisher “‘Prometheus Unbound', I must tell you, is my favourite poem; I charge you, therefore, specially to pet him and feed him with fine ink and good paper. 'Cenci' is written for the multitude, and ought to sell well”
For the #12DaysOfChristmas, Day 9, nine images of La Belle Dame Sans Merci Fourth, Frank Dicksee, 1901
This is the picture @pumps1000 used in his post exploring this, Keats's most mysterious poem. It's in @bristolmuseum
https://t.co/0Quc5hhR5q
#NineLadiesDancing
#OTD 1816 Byron compares his dog to his half-sister Augusta's “My dog (Mutz by name & Swiss by nation) shuts a door when he is told – there – that’s more than Tip can do”. However, Mutz was a bit of a coward, and once ran away when attacked by a pig
https://t.co/MxHQKbR7d9
#OTD 1819 Shelley writes from Italy "'I write less for the public than for myself... Of course it gives me a certain degree of pleasure to know that any one likes my writings; but it is objection & enmity alone that rouses my curiosity"
#OTD 1818 Shelley writes to Mary about his journey to Florence "The country was various & exceedingly beautiful... [We] past between high mountains crowned with some of the most majestic Gothic ruins I ever saw.. half seen among the olive copses" 1/3