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The Sensitive Plant -
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Robinson (illustrator)
1911 - William Heinemann, London - First American Edition to be illustrated by Charles Robinson
The perfect marriage of Shelley’s exquisite masterpiece with Charles Robinson’s delicate illustrations. With an introduction by Edmond Gosse. A fine example in the original dust jacket.
‘For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower;
Radiance and odour are not its dower;
It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full,
It desires what it has not, the Beautiful!
‘When Shelley wrote ‘The Sensitive Plant’ he was drawing very near the end of his poetry. It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820. In the next winter — a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune — he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death. The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.‘ (from the 1899 edition).
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1911 - William Heinemann, London - First American Edition to be illustrated by Charles Robinson
The perfect marriage of Shelley’s exquisite masterpiece with Charles Robinson’s delicate illustrations. With an introduction by Edmond Gosse. A fine example in the original dust jacket.‘For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower;
Radiance and odour are not its dower;
It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full,
It desires what it has not, the Beautiful!
‘When Shelley wrote ‘The Sensitive Plant’ he was drawing very near the end of his poetry. It was one of the poems belonging to the days at Pisa, whither the Shelleys had gone late in the January of 1820. In the next winter — a winter of many painful associations for him, and many discouragements and reminders of evil fortune — he wrote this mysterious song of beauty and death. The idea of it appears to have come to him from the flowers which Mrs. Shelley had collected round her in her own room at the house they occupied on the south side of the Arno.‘ (from the 1899 edition).
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Price HK$ 7,000