Recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron
Shelley, percy bysshe, 1792-1822
Byron, george gordon byron, baron, 1788-1824
Last years
Poets, biography
English Poets
Death and burial
Friends and associates
English Authors
Homes and haunts
British
Adventure and adventurers
Correspondence
Intellectual life
Biography
History
"'I have met today the personification of my Corsair,' Byron wrote to Teresa Guiccioli in January 1822. 'He sleeps with the poem under his pillow, and all his past adventures and present manners aim at this personification.' Trelawny was undoubtedly a traveller, an adventurer, a teller of tall tales…
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