ABSTRACT
Stanza 1 is first drafted vertically on f. 219 of Nbk 3, palimpsesting quotations from Plato’s Apology, which was presumably among the works of Plato read during S.’s first fortnight in Albion House at Marlow, 18 March-2 April 1817. Nbk 3 is filled with drafts of L&C, V xix to the end of the poem, so the need to insert it in this
Detached Passage (d)
Perhaps intended for the lady who, in Mary S.’s account of S.’s proposed continuation of the poem, Athanase was to fall in love with as the embodiment of his ideal of love and beauty.
