...winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue skv of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. M Although the city inspired his "Prometheus," Shelley offers us a clearer picture of what this inspiration...

...which he wrote in the preface : The bright blue sky of Rome and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate and the new life with...intoxication were the inspiration of this drama.' A crowd of Shelley's contemporaries echoed his feelings — not only the invalids who hoped to recover...

...arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." He describes the Baths of Caracalla at length on 23 March 1819, in a letter to Thomas Love Peacock,...

...suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of the spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." Mr. Putnam's Prometheus has been produced amidst a very different environment, although one sufficiently...