Edmund Blunden manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1945-1955

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Edmund Blunden manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1945-1955

· Typescript poem, "Shelley's Last Days" : ca. 1945 (S'ANA 0936), three pages with pencil revisions. · Holograph essay, "On a Portrait by Mrs. Leigh Hunt" : ca. 1955 (H'ANA 0056), seven pages. The essay was published in The Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin, 1955. · Transcription of Shelley lines : (PBS 0273), from "Bixby-Huntington" Shelley notebooks, with note by Blunden. Begins: "Ye devils black and spectres white ..." · To Professor William Archer of The Univerity of Tennessee : 4 autograph letters signed : 28 Jan - 26 Mar 1947 (S'ANA 0231), on various topics of Romantic literary scholarship. The final letter is on a postcard. · To Carl H. Pforzheimer, investment banker, philanthropist and collector : 1 autograph letter : 7 Dec 1953 (S'ANA 0129), on a recent day "in remembrance of Shelley" and other topics related to Blunden's Shelley scholarship.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974

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Blunden was an English poet and scholar. From the description of Edmund Blunden papers, 1921-1952 (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612727624 Edmund Blunden, English poet and university teacher. His highly acclaimed biography of Shelley was published in 1946. From the description of Edmund Blunden manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1945-1955 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76945001 From the guide to the Edmund Blunden manuscript ma...

Archer, William, Professor.

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Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957

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The New York financier and collector Carl Howard Pforzheimer (1879-1957) began acquiring materials documenting the English Romantic poets in the 1920s. After his death, his various collections became an asset of the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc. In 1986, the Foundation gave to the New York Public Library those items pertaining to the Romantics (including ca. 12,000 printed items, cataloged separately and searchable in the NYPL catalogue), and other tangential material, along with an...

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...