Poets Shelley and Byron had what removed for separate burial?

BRY2K

In the case of Shelley it was her heart. Heart burial had certainly been practised in the past, especially during the Crusades, and the poet Shelley's heart had been brought home from Italy that it might lie in English earth. http://www.thomashardysociety.com/ephemera.html Aug 06 08, 7:46 PM

zbeckabee

Same goes for Byron: Deeply mourned by the Greeks, he became a hero throughout their land. His body was embalmed; the heart was removed and buried in Missolonghi. His remains were then sent to England and, refused burial in Westminster Abbey, placed in the vault of his ancestors near Newstead. http://englishhistory.net/byron/life.html I'm not sure about Mary Shelley's heart...But, this addresses Percy's: On the first anniversary of Mary Shelley's death, the Shelleys opened her box-desk. Inside they found locks of her dead children's hair, a notebook she had shared with Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a copy of his poem Adonaïs with one page folded round a silk parcel containing some of his ashes and the remains of his heart. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,386842,00.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley Aug 06 08, 8:33 PM