Calpe: Gibraltar; Lofoden: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the N.-W. coast of Norway.
Poem 257.
This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by Hamilton on the subject better treated in 127 and 128.
Poem 268.
Arcturi: seemingly used for northern stars.
And wild roses, etc. Our language has no line modulated with more subtle sweetness. A good poet might have written And roses wild:—yet this slight change would disenchant the verse of its peculiar beauty.
Poem 270.
Ceres' daughter: Proserpine; God of Torment: Pluto.
Poem 271.
This impassioned address expresses Shelley's most rapt imaginations, and is the direct modern representative of the feeling which led the Greeks to the worship of Nature.