1st Edition
The Poems of Shelley: Volume One 1804-1817
642 Pages
by
Routledge
642 Pages
by
Routledge
642 Pages
by
Routledge
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes supply the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse.
The present volume includes the 'Esdaile' poems, which only entered the public domain in the 1950s, printed in chronological order and integrated with the rest of Shelley's early output, and Queen Mab, the first of Shelley’s major poems, together with its extensive prose notes. The seminal Alastor volume is placed in the detailed context of Shelley’s overall poetic development. The ‘Scrope Davies’ notebook, only discovered in 1976, furnishes two otherwise unknown sonnets as well as alternative versions of ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ and ‘Mont Blanc’, which significantly influence our understanding of these important poems.
This first volume contains new datings, and makes numerous corrections to long-established errors and misunderstandings in the transmission of Shelley's work. Its annotations and headnotes provide new perspectives on Shelley's literary, philosophical and political development The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.
Note by the General Editor, John Barnard; Chronological Table of Shelley’s Life and Publications, Geoffrey Matthews; Part 1 The Poems Chapter 1‘A Cat in distress’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 2 Written in Very Early Youth , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 3 Sadak the Wanderer. A Fragment , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 4 To the Moonbeam , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 5 Song. Translated from the German , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 6 The Irishman’s Song , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 7 Henry and Louisa , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 8 Revenge , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 9 Song , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 10 Ghasta; or the Avenging Demon!!! , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 11 The Wandering Jew; or the Victim of the Eternal Avenger , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 12 Olympia , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 13 The Revenge , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 14 February 28th 1805: To St Irvyne , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 15 Song , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 16 ‘How swiftly through Heaven’s wide expanse’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 17 ‘How eloquent are eyes!’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 18 ‘Hopes that bud in youthful breasts’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 19 Song: Despair , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 20 ‘Cold are the blasts’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 21 Song. Translated from the Italian , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 22 Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 23 Song: Sorrow , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 24 Song: Hope , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 25 Song: To—— , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 26 Song: To —— , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 27 Song: ‘How stern are the woes’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 28 Song: ‘Ah! faint are her limbs’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 29 ‘Late was the night’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 30 ‘Ghosts of the dead!’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 31 Ballad: ‘The death-bell beats!’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 32 ‘Ambition, power, and avarice’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 33 Fragment. Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 34 Despair , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 35 Fragment , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 36 The Spectral Horseman , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 37 Melody to a Scene of Former Times , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 38 To Mary-I , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 39 To Mary-II , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 40 To Mary who died in this opinion , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 41 To Mary-III , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 42 To the Lover of Mary , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 43 To Death , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 44 To the Emperors of Russia and Austria , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 45 To Liberty , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 46 The Solitary , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 47 The Monarch’s Funeral: An Anticipation , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 48 The Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 49 ‘I will kneel at thine altar’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 50 On an Icicle that clung to the grass of a grave , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 51 Fragment of a Poem , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 52 A Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 53 ‘Dares the llama’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 54 A Dialogue , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 55 ‘Why is it said thou canst but live’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 56 Letter to Edward Fergus Graham , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 57 Second Letter to Edward Fergus Graham , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 58 Zeinab and Kathema , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 59 ‘Sweet star!’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 60 On a Fête at Carlton House , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 61 Written at Cwm Elan , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 62 ‘Death-spurning rocks!’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 63 To Harriet ********* , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 64 To November , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 65 ‘Full many a mind with radiant genius fraught’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 66 Passion: To the [Woody Nightshade] , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 67 A Winter’s Day , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 68 A Tale of Society as it is: from facts, 1811 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 69 A Sabbath Walk , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 70 The Crisis , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 71 The Tombs , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 72 On Robert Emmet’s Tomb , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 73 To the Republicans of North America , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 74 ‘The Ocean rolls between us’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 75 ‘Bear witness, Erin!’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 76 Falsehood and Vice: A Dialogue , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 77 Written on a Beautiful Day in Spring , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 78 ‘Dark Spirit of the desert rude’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 79 The Retrospect: Cwm Elan 1812 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 80 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 81 Mary to the Sea-Wind , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 82 Sonnet: To Harriet on her Birthday, August 1 1812 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 83 The Devil’s Walk: A Ballad , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 84 Sonnet: On Launching some Bottles filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 85 Sonnet: To a Balloon, Laden with Knowledge , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 86 A Retrospect of Times of Old , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 87 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 88 Sonnet: On Waiting for a Wind to Cross the Bristol Channel from Devonshire to Wales , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 89 The Voyage. A Fragment… Devonshire-August 1812 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 90 On Leaving London for Wales , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 91 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 92 Queen Mab , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 93 ‘The pale, the cold, and the moony smile’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 94 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 95 To Ianthe , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 96 Evening: To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 97 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 98 Stanza, written at Bracknell , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 99 Lines: ‘That moment is gone for ever’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 100 Fragments written in Claire Clairmont’s Journal , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 101 Stanzas.-April, 1814 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 102 ‘Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 103 ‘Dear Home …’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 104 ‘On her hind paws the Dormouse stood’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 105 ‘What Mary is …’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 106 ‘O! there are spirits of the air’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 110 Guido Cavalcanti to Dante Alighieri , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 111 To Wordsworth , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 112 Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 113 Mutability , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 114 114 Alas tor; or, The Spirit of Solitude , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 115 The Daemon of the World , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 115a [Fragment revised from Queen Mab v 1–15] , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 116 The Sunset , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 117 Verses written on receiving a Celandine in a letter from England , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 118 Lines to Leigh Hunt , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 119 ‘A shovel of his ashes’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 120 To Laughter , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 121 ‘Upon the wandering winds’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 122 ‘O that a chariot of cloud were mine’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 123 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 124 Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 125 ‘My thoughts arise and fade in solitude’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 126 ‘Her voice did quiver as we parted’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 127 To [ ] , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 128 To[ ] , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 129 ‘They die-the dead return not’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 130 A Hate-Song (improvised) , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 131 To the [Lord Chancellor] , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 132 ‘Maiden / Thy delightful eyne’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 133 ‘In the yellow western sky’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 134 To Wilson S_____th , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 135 Otho , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 136 ‘Mighty Eagle, thou that soarest’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 137 ‘I visit thee but thou art sadly changed’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 138 Marianne’s Dream , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 139 ‘The billows on the beach are leaping around it’ , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 140 Translated from an Epigram of Plato, cited in the Apologia of Apuleius , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 141 ‘Shapes about my steps assemble’;
Biography
Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest
