{"id":2000,"date":"2013-09-27T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2013-09-27T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T16:05:45","slug":"new-leigh-hunt-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/09\/27\/new-leigh-hunt-manuscripts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leigh Hunt Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/09\/Rondeau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2538\" style=\"border: 5px solid white\" title=\"Rondeau Manuscript\" alt=\"Rondeau Manuscript\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/09\/Rondeau-300x273.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a> This past spring was a good season for acquisitions in Special Collections, Leigh Hunt material not least among them. Not only did we pick up Percy Shelley\u2019s personal copy of Hunt\u2019s <i>Feast of the Poets<\/i>\u2014a spectacular association copy, as Hunt and Shelley were remarkably close friends\u2014but we acquired four Leigh Hunt manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>Two of these are copies of his most famous poems: \u201cAbou Ben Adhem\u201d and \u201cRondeau.\u201d Perhaps the poem most beloved by posterity, \u201cRondeau\u201d (more commonly known as \u201cJenny Kissed Me\u201d) shares the poet\u2019s excitement after having kissed Jane Carlyle, wife of the archetypal Victorian Thomas and neighbor of the Hunts.<\/p>\n<p>The third manuscript is a draft fragment of <i>The Palfrey<\/i>. Only a few of the lines from this draft found their way into the published version, betraying the significant revisions the poem underwent at the author\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n<p>A transcript of \u201cVelluti to his Revilers\u201d is perhaps the most interesting manuscript in the lot. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/09\/Velluti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2539 alignleft\" style=\"border: 5px solid white\" title=\"Velluti to His Revilers\" alt=\"Velluti to His Revilers\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2013\/09\/Velluti-300x122.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a> It\u2019s not one of Hunt\u2019s best known poems, but the transcript is thought to be in the hand of Julia, the author\u2019s eighth child. While \u201cVelluti\u201d may not make the cut for the latest Norton anthology, Leigh Hunt writes at the end of these lines, \u201cI think them the best (in rhyme) that I ever wrote\u2014if I am old enough to be allowed to talk of my \u2018best.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past spring was a good season for acquisitions in Special Collections, Leigh Hunt material not least among them. Not only did we pick up Percy Shelley&rsquo;s personal copy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}