Recollections of the last days of Shelley and Byron - Edward John Trelawny

As companion and friend to the two great poets, Edward Trelawny was ideally placed to tell their story and his account of their last few years is affectionate yet acute.
It begins in the year of 1821, when at the invitation of a friend he travelled to Italy and found himself in company with the Shelleys and Byron, who were staying at Pisa. From the first, vivid impressions - he was surprised to find Shelley a 'mild-looking, beardless boy' and Byron, despite his 'halting gait' as 'fresh, vigorous and animated as any man I ever saw'- until Byron's death in 1824, he gives a detailed and lifelike picture of their days and their conversations.
This classic book will fascinate readers today as it did when first published in 1858.