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Pauline : we might have had a different Browning. It contained most of Shelley's writings, all in their first edition, with the exception of
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The Cenci : in addition, there were three volumes by an even less known poet, John Keats, which kindly Mrs. Browning had been persuaded to include in her purchase on Mr. Ollier's assurance that they were the poetic kindred of Shelley's writings, and that Mr. Keats was the subject of the elegiac poem in the purple paper cover, with the foreign-looking type and the imprint
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Pisa at the foot of the title-page, entitled
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Adonais. What an evening for the young poet that must have been. He told a friend it was a May night, and that in a laburnum,
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and in a great copper-beech at the end of a neighbour's garden, two nightingales strove one against the other. For a moment it is a pleasant fancy to imagine that there the souls of Keats and Shelley uttered their enfranchised music, not in rivalry but in welcome. We can realise, perhaps, something of the startled delight, of the sudden electric tremors, of the young poet when, with eager eyes, he turned over the pages of
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Epipsychidion or
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Prometheus Unbound,
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Alastor or
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Endymion,
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to
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And suddenly, without heart-wreck, I awoke As from a dream.
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Epipsychidion, haunted him above all others: and again and again in his poems we may encounter vague echoes of those
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and
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--as, for example, in
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of
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Pauline, and the
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of
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Pippa Passes.