...aside all that summer and the next year to the composition of this play, whose subject he finds to be admirably dramatic and poetical. "But you will say...tragedy a person without dramatic talent could write." Apparently the only result of all this promise was the song for Tasso, beginning I loved— alas! Our...

...yellow under the storied window, which I have chosen to visit, and read Dante there. I have devoted this summer, and indeed the next year, to the composition...admirably dramatic and poetical. But, you will say, I bavo no dramatic talent ; very true, in a certain sense ; but I have taken the resolution to see what...

...yellow under the storied window, which I have chosen to visit, and read Dame there. I have devoted this summer, and indeed the next year, to the composition of a tragedy on tbe subject of Tasso's madness, which I find upon inspection is, if properly treated, admirably dramatic...

...Already, on the 20th of April, we find him writing to a friend his intention of devoting the summer to the composition of a tragedy on the subject of Tasso's madness. This was an entire new phase for Shelley's genius to exhibit itself, nor had he hitherto given much...

...she listens. 1820. SCENE FROM TASSO. ["I HAVE devoted," Shelley wrote from Milan, April 20, 1818, " this summer, and indeed the next year, to the composition...properly treated, admirably dramatic and poetical." Brief and slight as the following fragment is, it is highly interesting, as affording some clue to...

...speaks thus of tfc< drama he was then projecting. " I have devoted this summer, and indeed the neat year, to the composition of a tragedy on the subject...properly treated, admirably dramatic and poetical. Be: you will say I have no dramatic talent. Very true, in a certain sense : but I have taken the resolution...

...Peacock from Milan, 2oth April 1818, speaks thus of the drama he was then projecting. " I have devoted this summer, and indeed the next year, to the composition...but I have taken the resolution to see what kind of tragedy a person without dramatic talent could write. It shall be better morality than Fazio, and better...

...believed, admirably dramatic and poetical. " But you will say," he had written from Milan to Peacock, " I have no dramatic talent ; very true, in a certain...tragedy a person without dramatic talent could write." The design was never executed, and the only fragments of the tragedy of Tasso which we possess are...

...Shelley. Royal Octavo edition, 1874, dc., pp. 125-126.) (S) " The sapphire space of interstellar sir. the subject of Tasso's madness ; which I find upon...properly treated, admirably dramatic and poetical." Of course this may mean simply that Shelley had decided upon devoting the snmmer, then only in its...

...have expected to find in a writer of Shelley's temperament. In a letter of 1818 he himself remarks: " You will say I have no dramatic talent ; very true...but I have taken the resolution to see what kind of tragedy a person without dramatic talent could write." The success of The Cenci is indisputable ; yet...