European Poetry Journey: Points of Inspiration
Places where poets had their moments of illumination

Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva, Montreux, Switzerland


Poets & Writers and their Points of Inspiration—

Honore Balzac: Louis Lambert (Human Comedy), Paris, France

William Blake: Song of Innocence, London, England

Lord Byron: The Castle of Chillon, Montreux, Switzerland

Dante Alighieri: La Vita Nuova, Florence, Italy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Harz Mountain, Germany

James Joyce & A.E.: Ulysess, Dublin, Ireland

Rainer Marie Rilke: The Panther, Paris, France

Peter Paul Rubens: Château de Steen, Malines, Belgium

Friedrich von Schiller: Ode to Joy, Weimar, Germany

William Shakespeare: Sonnets, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England

William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Tintern, England

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