Four manuscript sonnets on Percy Bysshe Shelley between 1830 and 1839

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Four manuscript sonnets on Percy Bysshe Shelley between 1830 and 1839

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In ink; two poems on each page of one single sheet : (S'ANA 0909) : first lines of each poem as follows: "Shelley! thy mind was as a noble bark"; "The loftiest poetic powers were thine"; "How wildly sweet the breatings of thy lyre"; "For thou hadst seen thine error and returned". Signed "Nemo Aug.t 183[-]" (last digit of date cut off). Tipped into Pforzheimer copy 3 of the first edition, first issue of Byron's Prisoner of Chillon. A partially erased inscription on the front free endpaper, in what seems to be the same hand as that in the "sonnets," examined in ultra-violet light, reads: "Julia R[ ] June 1824 / from Eliz[a] R[ ] / June 18 / 1817.".

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The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...