Shelley, Percy Bysshe. ADONAIS. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION ETC. PISA, WITH THE TYPES OF DIDO, 1821 crown 4to (218 x 132mm.), first edition, full crushed green morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, all edges gilt, green cloth slipcase, slightly foxed very rare first edition of shelley's great elegy on john keats "to which has been ascribed a place with the laments of Bion and Moschus and Milton's Lycidas, the greatest elegiac poems in all literature" (Granniss). The poem is prefaced by a bitter attack on the critics of the Quarterly Review whose harsh treatment of Endymion, Shelley believed, had hastened Keats's death. As Shelley himself remarked, Adonais was beautifully printed at his own request in Pisa (by an unidentified printer), and issued without half-title. "He has outsoared the shadow of our night..."
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. ADONAIS. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION ETC. PISA, WITH THE TYPES OF DIDO, 1821 crown 4to (218 x 132mm.), first edition, full crushed green morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, all edges gilt, green cloth slipcase, slightly foxed very rare first edition of shelley's great elegy on john keats "to which has been ascribed a place with the laments of Bion and Moschus and Milton's Lycidas, the greatest elegiac poems in all literature" (Granniss). The poem is prefaced by a bitter attack on the critics of the Quarterly Review whose harsh treatment of Endymion, Shelley believed, had hastened Keats's death. As Shelley himself remarked, Adonais was beautifully printed at his own request in Pisa (by an unidentified printer), and issued without half-title. "He has outsoared the shadow of our night..."
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