TY - BOOK ID - 85467134 TI - Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron PY - 1858 SN - 1139061658 1108034055 PB - Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881 KW - Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 KW - Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 KW - Poets KW - Italy KW - Biography & Autobiography KW - Literary Criticism KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467134 AB - The biographer and novelist E. J. Trelawny (1792-1881) published Recollections in 1858. It is a memoir of the time Trelawny spent in the Mediterranean with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and Lord Byron (1788-1824) from 1822 until the early deaths of both poets. Trelawny's vivid and personal account quickly became popular, comfortably out-selling other biographies, and was republished in 1878 under the title Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author. The work, based on Trelawny's notes and correspondence, describes their expatriate lifestyle in Italy, Shelley's sudden tragic death at sea, Byron's support for the Greek War of Independence, and his death. It is an indispensable source about the final months of Shelley and Byron's intense and unconventional lives, providing eye-witness details and intimate knowledge of two of England's greatest Romantic poets. ER -