Protestant Cemetery, Rome in the manuscript of "Adonais," the elegy Shelley had written the year before upon the death of Keats, in which the poet urges the traveler, "Go thou to Rome ...". Shelley and Mary's three-year-old son William was also buried in the Protestant Cemetery. Shelley's heart was finally buried, encased in silver, in 1889, with the son who survived him, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, but his gravestone in the Protestant Cemetery is inscribed: "Cor cordium" ("heart of hearts"), followed by a quotation from Shakespeare's "The Tempest": Protestant Cemetery, Rome The Cimitero Acattolico ("Non-Catholic Cemetery") of Rome, often referred to as the
Pastoral elegy Shelley's grief is also palpable in the subsequent mourning: Thyrsis Written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865, "Thyrsis" is a personal elegy that mourns the death of Matthew's friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Clough died in November 1861 at the age of 42. The poem's plot revolves around the main character Thyrsis, a shepherd in Virgil's seventh Eclogue, who loses a singing match against Corydon. Matthew Arnold's character Thyrsis represents Matthew's friend Arthur Clough. Keeping with the tradition of pastoral elegy poetry, Arnold displays pastoral elements in the poem as he describes the nature surrounding Oxford. Literary criticism on Pastoral Literature