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while writing and we worked
on our Prometheus paper and
chatted! till dinner. What a
wonderful thing it is. Prof. A.
says the lyric at, the close
of Act II. beginning "Life of Life
thy lips enkindle" is the most
beautiful lyric in the English verse
with such a vision of radient
love and such a hope for
the redemption of this evil fraught
& oppressed world it seems
strange Shelley could be believed an
atheist - but of course he was
an atheist only in his rebellion
against conventional religion
of his age. It [came?] to me
he was far too filled with
divine vision to be [the?],
uneffectual though beautiful

angel that Mathew Arnold
calls him. So far he is the
poet I have enjoyed most
in this years study, and we
are not half through with
him yet. I think there is
something facinating about
his boyhood, do you remember
the incident told in the
memoirs of his setting fire
to the wood pile because he
wanted "a little hell all his
own".? Of course that would
tickle your "[baudin billin?]."

The past week has been
very uneventful. Mr. Pitcher
asked me to go to the Glee
club concert to be given soon
but I don't believe I shall

What a great big shame you