<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Look forward to reading this note in the Cambridge edition.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4206"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4184"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4238" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4237"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4236"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4235"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4241" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4240"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4239">From:</span></b> Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4243"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4242">To:</span></b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 19 June 2017, 12:17<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vwoolf] What on earth was it *about*?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4271"><br><div id="yiv3121408006">
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4267">So asks Florinda about “Adonais”.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4272">When I was growing up, our household did not approve of owning books (nor
excessive reading), so there were very few in our house: perhaps 25, which may
sound quite a lot, but I wasn’t aware that my father had the 3-vol. edn of “The
Modern Practical Plumber” (n.d. [1926]) packed away in the garage.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4273">My mother did have a small, soft, furry-covered selection of Shelley’s
poems, obviously a gift book. Indeed it was, as it was given to her by her
best friend. It was a great disappointment, as my mother specifically
wanted the poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (see VW Essays 3, p.97). As a
child, I used to open it – perhaps it started with “To a Skylark” or “Ode to the
West Wind” – and I couldn’t get further than a few lines before giving up in
incomprehension.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4280">Fancy giving someone like Florinda, “Adonais”. What a dick!</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4278">Stuart</div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4284">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1497874547441_4277">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>