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Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Reeves and Turner Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: [In a letter from Mrs. Shelley to Mrs. Leigh Hunt, dated the 27th of November, 1823, and printed in Mr. Garnett's Relics of Shelley, occurs the following passage: -- When he [Leigh Hunt] does send a packet over (let it be directed to his brother), will he also be so good as to send me a copy of my ' Choice, ' beginning after the line 'Entrenched sad lines, or blotted with its might.' Perhaps, dear Marianne, you would have the kindness to copy them for me, and send them soon. Mr. Garnett explains in a foot-note that the reference is to a poem by Mrs. Shelley. Whether any copy was made and sent, I know not; but the original manuscript has remained among the Shelley papers of Leigh Hunt till now; and by the kindness of Mr. S. R. Townshend Mayer, who has placed these invaluable papers at my disposal, I am enabled to give to the world this most interesting and remarkable composition. The manuscript consists of six foolscap leaves, very clearly written: it had evidently been submitted to Leigh Hunt for revision or suggestion; and it bears several markings by him, and words in his handwriting, which have some claim to be considered part and parcel of the text, inasmuch as Mrs. Shelley has evidently been over the manuscript after him, -- one word of his being struck out and another substituted in her writing. -- H. B. F.] THE CHOICE. My Choice! -- My Choice, alas! was had and gone With the red gleam of last aut...

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