Draft of A Vision of the Sea.. PAGE 161 Wordsworth and Carnage: some satirical doggerel 173 Unfinished heroics to the People of England Heroics: "What men gain fairly, that should they possess❞ The Breath of Life's own Life: a fragment Jottings in verse: "There was once a war in 175 182 183 184 NOTE BOOK II ["Yet look on me" : a Fragment in Spenserian Stanza.} ALTH LTHOUGH Shelley was certainly in Italy when almost the whole contents of Note Book II (in common with I and III) were written, II has this peculiarity-that the first six recto pages in it bear pencilled drafts of a fragmentary kind, each beginning at the top of a page, and that one of them may be securely assigned to 1817, to wit the Lines to Godwin, Mighty Eagle, thou that soarest O'er the misty mountain forest [, which will be found a few pages further on. My belief is that this Note Book, which is of quite a different manufacture from the other two, happened to accompany the Shelleys to Italy in an almost blank state, and to be the first that came to |