Abstract When Leigh Hunt and his family finally arrived at Genoa in June 1822 he exchanged letters with Percy Shelley, who was spending the summer at nearby Lerici. Shelley welcomed the Hunts, affectionately writing: ‘may [traditionally interpreted as ‘many’] mountains & seas no longer divide those whose affections are united’. Hunt was delighted by this friendly message but misrepresented its wording both in 1828 and in the two much later versions of his Autobiography. What he could not have known, and what was concealed by his own choice of phrasing, was that, whether consciously or not, Shelley was following the words of Byron’s ‘Epistle to Augusta’, which had been written in 1816 but was not published till 1830. During the summer of 1816 when both Shelleys had been very close to Byron, Shelley almost certainly had opportunities to familiarize himself with the words in question. It was Shelley, too, who had been chosen by Byron to deliver the poem to his publisher, although Murray was firmly instructed not to publish without the consent of Augusta Leigh.

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“山与海”：珀西·比希·雪莱给雷·亨特的一封信和拜伦的“致奥古斯塔的书信”

摘要 当 Leigh Hunt 和他的家人于 1822 年 6 月最终抵达热那亚时，他与在附近的莱里奇度过夏天的珀西雪莱交换了信件。雪莱欢迎狩猎，深情地写道：“可能[传统上解释为‘许多’]山脉和海洋不再分裂那些感情一致的人”。亨特对这个友好的信息感到高兴，但在 1828 年和他的自传的两个较晚版本中都歪曲了它的措辞。他所不知道的，以及他自己选择的措辞所掩盖的是，无论有意与否，雪莱都在遵循拜伦写于 1816 年但直到 1816 年才出版的《致奥古斯塔书信》的话。 1830. 1816 年夏天，雪莱和拜伦都非常亲近，雪莱几乎肯定有机会熟悉这些词。雪莱也被拜伦选中将这首诗交给他的出版商，尽管默里被坚定地指示未经奥古斯塔·利的同意不得出版。