crichlade

Updated: July 28, 2025

Accompanied by a few friends, he visited the source of the Thames, making a voyage in a wherry from Windsor to Crichlade. His beautiful stanzas in the churchyard of Lechlade were written on that occasion. "Alastor" was composed on his return.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley