28 JULY 1894, Page 16

SHELLEY AND "THE PAINTED VEIL."

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTAMOR.1

Sin,—May I correct a quotation from Shelley made in the article on Keats in the Spectator of July 21st P In !" Prometheus Unbound " it runs thus :- " Death is the veil which those who live call life : They sleep, and it is lifted," not " the painted veil," which would be obviously out of place, and lacking in simplicity.—I am, Sir, &c., E. E. D.

[Our correspondent is mistaken. We did not quote the "Prometheus Unbound," but the fine sonnet beginning with the words quoted exactly by us from the opening of the sonnet. —ED. Spectator.]