1st Edition

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings

    1912 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.

    Volume 1 Italian Lives: Lives of Petrach, Boccaccio, Lorenzo di Medici, Marsiglio Ficino, Giovanni Pico dell Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, Bernardo Pulci, Luca Pulci, Luigi Pulci, Cieco de Ferrara, Burchiello, Matteo Maria Bojardo, Francesco Berni, Machiavelli, Guiccardini, Vittoria Colonna, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Gabriello Chiabrera, Alessandro Tassoni, Giambattista Marini, Vincenzo de Filicaja, Pietro Metastasio, Carlo Goldoni, Vittorio Alfieri, Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo Volume 2 Spanish and Portuguese lives: Survey of early Hispanic literature, Juan Boscan, Garcilaso de la Vega, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Luis Ponce de Leon, Fernando de Herrera, Jorge de Montemayor, Cristobal de Castillejo, Cervantes, Alonzo de Ericilla [not by Mary Shelley], Lope de Vega, Vincente Espinel, Esteban de Villegas, Luis de Gongora, Franciso Gomez de Quevedo, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Bernardim Ribeyro, Gil Vincente, Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Antonio Ferreira, Luiz Vaz de Camoens; French Lives: Montaigne, Rabelais [not by Mary Shelley], Corneille, La Rochefoucauld Volume 3 French Lives: Moliere, Boileau, Racine, La Fontaine [not by Mary Shelley], Pascal, Madame de Sevigne, Fenelon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Stael Volume 4 Memoirs: 'Life of William Godwin' (1836-c.1840); Non-dramatic poetry: 'The Choice' (1823); 'On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peel Castle' (1825); 'To Jane with the Last Man' (1826); 'Absence' (1830); 'A Dirge' (1830); 'The Death of Love' (1831); 'A Night Scene' (1831); 'To love in solitude' (1832); 'Stanzas' (1832); 'La Vida es sueno' (1833-4); 'Fair Italy! Still shines thy sun as bright' (1833); 'Tempo e ben di morire' (1833) 'O listen while I sing to thee' (1838); 'O come to me in dreams' (1838); 'How like a Star you rose upon my Life' (1838); Uncollected Fiction: 'Maurice' (1820); 'Lacy de Vere' (1827); 'Cecil' (c1845) [newly identified as a translation]; Uncollected Non-fiction: 'Theseus' fragment; 'Cyrus' fragment (c1815); 'Book of Samuel' fragment (?1819-20); 'Necessity of a Belief in the Heathen Mythology' (c1820); 'Life of Shelley' (1823); 'Modern Italian Romances' (1838); Translations: 'Cupid and Psyche' (1817), 'Relation of the Death of the Family of the Cenci' (1819); Two chapters, of translation of Laura Tighe Galloni's novel 'Inez de Medina' (?1848-50); Part-Authored and Attributed Writings