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catastrophic, that happens right outside our tent, on this day. As we watch the global
contamination and death toll of the “virus” spreading from country to country,
region to region, the Great Depression, plus a magnified, zoonotic World War II,
absent any Federal leadership, equaling World War III, New Yorkers told to prepare
for their “Pearl Harbor,” it all makes terrible sense with even the slightest hindsight.
And that’s because, in large measure, we do have the letters of Saint Jerome, private
and immense, preserved sculptural likenesses of Caesar or Plotinus, a death mask of
Keats, emphatically open diaries by Anne Frank or Marcel Proust, as well as devotional paintings of the young Percy Bysshe Shelley at the height of his glorious
indwelling (Fig. 39.2).
39.2 An Ecological Life of Shelley
The likenesses left to posterity of Shelley, particularly Joseph Severn’s painting of
“Shelley in the Baths of Caracalla Writing ‘Prometheus Unbound’”(1845) at the
Keats Shelley Memorial House in Rome, gives us to imagine that he is someone we
Fig. 39.2 Portrait of Percy
Bysshe Shelley After The
Original Drawing In The
National Portrait Gallery,
London, From A
Photograph by J. Caswall
Smith, by Miss Amelia
Curran, Irish Painter, Died
1847. (Private Collection)
39.2 An Ecological Life of Shelley
catastrophic, that happens right outside our tent, on this day. As we watch the global
contamination and death toll of the “virus” spreading from country to country,
region to region, the Great Depression, plus a magnified, zoonotic World War II,
absent any Federal leadership, equaling World War III, New Yorkers told to prepare
for their “Pearl Harbor,” it all makes terrible sense with even the slightest hindsight.
And that’s because, in large measure, we do have the letters of Saint Jerome, private
and immense, preserved sculptural likenesses of Caesar or Plotinus, a death mask of
Keats, emphatically open diaries by Anne Frank or Marcel Proust, as well as devotional paintings of the young Percy Bysshe Shelley at the height of his glorious
indwelling (Fig. 39.2).
39.2 An Ecological Life of Shelley
The likenesses left to posterity of Shelley, particularly Joseph Severn’s painting of
“Shelley in the Baths of Caracalla Writing ‘Prometheus Unbound’”(1845) at the
Keats Shelley Memorial House in Rome, gives us to imagine that he is someone we
Fig. 39.2 Portrait of Percy
Bysshe Shelley After The
Original Drawing In The
National Portrait Gallery,
London, From A
Photograph by J. Caswall
Smith, by Miss Amelia
Curran, Irish Painter, Died
1847. (Private Collection)
39.2 An Ecological Life of Shelley