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Laon and Cyntha, Canto IX.i.1-I.iii.5

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Title

Laon and Cyntha, Canto IX.i.1-I.iii.5

Collection

Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material
Series I. Writings
Poetry
Seven holograph fragments from Laon and Cythna

Names

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Author)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1817-03-20 - 1817-10 (Inferred)

Library Location

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (PBS 0277)

Genres

Poetry
Manuscripts

Notes

Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Citation/Reference: Shelley and his Circle, SC 577: volume VII, page 76
Content: Begins, "That night we anchored in a woody bay, / And Sleep no more around us dared to hover . . . ."
Date: Date created: [late March-October 1817]

Physical Description

Extent: 2 pages (single sheet)

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17040453
Archives ID: 19614
Archives EAD ID: 1746889
Archives Components ID: 1383051
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ecd77090-4619-0134-948a-00505686d14e

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Laon and Cyntha, Canto IX.i.1-I.iii.5" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1817. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ecd77090-4619-0134-948a-00505686d14e

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1817). Laon and Cyntha, Canto IX.i.1-I.iii.5 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ecd77090-4619-0134-948a-00505686d14e

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Laon and Cyntha, Canto IX.i.1-I.iii.5" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ecd77090-4619-0134-948a-00505686d14e

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