ponder
“When
Shelley’s corpse washed ashore, a friend identified it by a copy of
Keats’s 1820 volume in the coat pocket, which he knew Shelley had taken
with him. Then, after cremation in which Shelley’s heart, hardened by
calcium, did not burn, this same friend snatched it from the embers and
presented it to Mary Shelley, who kept it thereafter in her desk,
wrapped in a copy of ‘Adonais.”
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