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A Discussion of the Circumstances in Connection With the Cremation of Shelly, the English Poet

E. P. Scarlett, MB

Arch Intern Med. 1966;118(4):406-412.

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From my jumbled calendar of themes which I have thought that some day it would be pleasant to follow up, I select this item.

About ten years ago, I became interested in one of the dramatic episodes of history, the burning, after the ancient Greek fashion, of the body of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the English poet, on the beach of the Gulf of Spezia in Italy near Viareggio. At that time, Professor Arthur Norman of the College of Arts and Sciences, Louisiana State University, wrote a note in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (January 1956) dealing with this remarkable incident which he very neatly described as "perhaps the unspoken epitome of Romanticism." During the course of the ceremony of burning, it was noted to the wonder of all the bystanders that Shelley's heart did not burn. It was ultimately snatched from the funeral pyre by . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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