e."]

[Footnote 30: _Sic._ The name was formerly spelled this way and the
last syllable pronounced _rone._]

[Footnote 31: Letter dated "Pisa, November 17, 1821," five years after
the separation, and addrest "To the care of the Hon. Mrs. Leigh [his
sister], London." After he went abroad in 1816, Byron and his wife
never met again; nor did he ever return to England, except when dead,
for burial.]

[Footnote 32: Letter dated "Pisa, Jan. 12, 1822."]

[Footnote 33: Byron's "Cain" was inscribed to Scott.]

[Footnote 34: From the reply to Bowles. William L. Bowles, clergyman,
poet and antiquarian, was born in 1762, and died in 1850. In 1806 he
had issued an edition of Pope in ten volumes, to which was prefixt a
sketch of the poet's life, with severe criticisms on his poetry. These
criticisms gave rise to a controversy, famous in its time and long
afterward, and to which Byron's article was a notable contribution.]

[Footnote 35: Cape Colonna (anciently called Sunium) lies at the
southeastern end of Attica and is a promontory.]

[Footnote 36: The reference is to William Falconer, second mate of a
ship in the Levantine trade, which was wrecked during a voyage from
Alexandria to Venice. Falconer became a poet, and his work, "The
Shipwreck," was founded on his own experience.]

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Born in 1792, drowned at Spezia, Italy, in 1822; educated at
Eton and Oxford, being expelled from the latter for
publishing a pamphlet on atheism; married Harriet Westbrook
in 1811; met Mary Woolstonecraft in 1814, and went to live
with her in Switzerland, abandoning Harriet; returned to
England in 1815 and settled near Windsor Forest; joined
Byron in Switzerland in 1816; in the same year, Harriet
having drowned herself, he married Mary; his body consumed
on a funeral pyre at Spezia in the presence of Leigh Hunt,
Byron and Trelawny; published "Queen Mab" in 1813; "Alastor"
in 1816; "Prometheus Unbound" in 1820; his works collected
by his wife in 1830.

I

IN DEFENSE OF POETRY[37]

The functions of the poetical faculty are twofold; by one it creates
new materials of knowledge, and power, and pleasure; by the other it
engenders in the mind a desire to reproduce and arrange them according
to a certain rhythm and order which may be called the beautiful and
the good. The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than
at periods when, from a