In Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley, remembering his 1818 visit to Byron, when he rolled billiard balls with Allegra, immortalized the toddler as Count Maddalo's child in his 1819 poem Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation:
| “ | A lovelier toy sweet Nature never made; A serious, subtle, wild, yet gentle being; |
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In the next stanza he imagines her grown to a woman: "A wonder of this earth ... Like one of Shakespeare's women."
Read more about this topic: Allegra Byron
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