#OTD 1822, Viareggio. Shelley's body is dug up from where it has been buried in the sand for a month and burned on the beach. It takes three hours. Afterwards Byron swims a mile and a half to his boat 1/2

Byron gets something amounting to sun poisoning from this swim, something that long hampers him

Wonderful photo

For Shelley the mind is like a river. For me, it is like a sieve.

Aww. I hold it close to my heart too--until my arms hurt.

Buffalo hunting?

I don't think he was ever anyone's "very obedient servant."

Early social media

There are no direct contemporary accounts of PBS actually launching such balloons, though there is such evidence for him launching bottles into the Bristol Channel containing The Devil's Walk. For this & the arrest of Dan Healey, see Fraistat and Reiman: romantic-circles.org/editions/shell…

Quite relevant still, Paine hit the nail on the head and was echoed by Blake, Shelley, and a myriad of others: “It is the faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates”

Working on Shelley's Athanase, bearing on the fate of Twitter: ".... did he not e’er abuse The strength of wealth or thought, to consecrate Those false opinions which the hard rich use To blind the world they famish for their pride;

Athanase also contains one of the most unfortunate simile's in Shelley's poetry: "They past like aimless arrows from his ear—"

For Mary Shelley's birthday #OTD 1797, here are some of our posts on her and her work...

They did a great job!

Looking forward to this!

See the images, with searchable transcription by Michelle Faubert, along with her introduction on Shelley-Godwin Archive: shelleygodwinarchive.org/contents/ms_ab…

Great opportunity!

I offered to write a blurb but somehow they didn't think it would be appropriate. What a book! Beautifully written, suspenseful, and reworking old gothic conventions for something surprising, new, and moving.

Wow!