ABSTRACT
Drafted in Nbk 6, perhaps in September 1818 after visiting Petrarch’s tomb, or after the visit to Ariosto’s tomb on 7 November (see L ii 43, 46), in either case with possible memories of Harriet Grove. A somewhat later date around April 1819 (making a better fit with surrounding material in the nbk), could be suggested by a connection with S.’s note on ‘An Urn’ in his ‘Notes on Sculptures in Rome and Florence’: ‘“The memory of the good is ever green.” And art thou then forgotten?’ (Prose 345). Mary S.’s draft is in adds. d. 7 ff. 80-1; she included it among the Poems of 1822 in 1839, but the draft’s position in Nbk 6 makes an earlier date certain.
