Rosalind and Helen

Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems is a poetry collection by Percy Bysshe Shelley published in 1819. The collection also contains the poems "Lines written on the Euganean Hills", "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", and the sonnet "Ozymandias". The collection was published by Charles and James Ollier in London.

"Rosalind and Helen" is a narrative poem on the lives of two exiled English women, Rosalind and Helen, who meet by Lake Como, sharing their experiences of unfulfilled love, societal barriers, and political disillusionment. It is set within a background of incest and spectral figures, exploring themes of lost innocence, duty, and revolutionary and radical ideals.

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