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A lost anti-war poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which experts say will “rewrite” the romantic poet’s biography, is to go on display for the first time in two centuries after it was acquired by the Bodleian Libraries. The University of Oxford institution holds one of the most significant collections of Shelley’s works and manuscripts, and on 10 November announced it had bought.
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Two hundred and four years later, in our time of Syrian carnage, these lines from the Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things still ring out with undimmed force and urgency. Passionate.
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s long poem, A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things was published anonymously in 1811, got him kicked out of Oxford University, disappeared for nearly 200 years, was rediscovered in 2006, and soon sank again into oblivion.
The work, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, was published under the alias of “a gentleman of the University of Oxford” in 1811, when Shelley was 18. By the time a biographer drew.
Shelley was just 18 at Oxford University when he wrote his Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things. Printed in 1811 by a stationers on Oxford High Street, under the alias of “a gentleman of the University of Oxford”, it was only attributed to Shelley 50 years after his death, when copies were already said to be impossible to find. The work was considered lost until it was.
The rediscovery of Shelley’s Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things caused a wave of excitement a decade ago but until now the recently-resurfaced literary gem, which some believe to be as important as his famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, has only been seen by a handful of scholars.