RECOLLECTIONS

OF THE

LAST DAYS OF SHELLEY AND BYRON.

OF THE

LAST DAYS

OF

SHELLEY AND BYRON.

BY

E. J. TRELAWNY.

No living poet ever arrived at the fulness of his fame. The jury which sits
in judgment upon a poet, belonging as he does to all time, must be composed
of his peers: it must be impanelled by Time from the selectest of the wise
of many generations. - Shelley's Defence of Poetry.