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"An ode to the memory of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by D.M."

Title
"An ode to the memory of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by D.M.", 1829.

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Mixed materialPermit needed Pforz MSSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
Description
7 pages (6 single sheets); 22 cm
Summary
A fourteen-stanza manuscript draft in the hand of "D.M.," an otherwise unidentified versifier; begins, "Oh thou, among poets the first / in proud Britannia nurst ..."; with a number of deletions and corrections. Along with an earlier draft of stanzas VIII through XIV of the same poem (S'ANA 0630b), and what appears to be a fragment of an early draft of stanza I (S'ANA 0630c), which begins, "Immortal Spirit! / <loss> the mighty youth, who first, / <loss> [---n] Anglia's bosom nurst ...," though it is marked as being "by C.N." Also with a one page draft of another poem by D.M., "A Letter to Aristarchus Carlie, Esq." (S'ANA 0630d), which, along with the ode to Shelley, was published in R. Carlile's journal The Lion, volume 3, number 11, on Friday, March 13, 1829.
Subjects
Note
  • Pforzheimer Manuscript (S'ANA 0630a); filed in SC File under "Shelleyana."
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Call Number
Pforz MS
OCLC
885355931
Title
"An ode to the memory of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by D.M.", 1829.
Access
Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
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Found In:
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
Research Call Number
Pforz MS
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