The complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000-
- v. 1
- v. 2
- v. 3
Available at 70 libraries
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Includes indexes
Vol. 3: general editors, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat, Nora Crook ; volume editors, Neil Fraistat and Nora Crook ; associate editors, Stuart Curran, Michael J. Neth, Michael O'Neill ; assistant editor, David Brookshire
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9780801861192
Description
A milestone in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of all poems and translations that Shelley published or circulated among friends, as well as diplomatic texts of his significant incomplete poetic drafts and fragments. Edited upon historical principles by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, the multi volume edition will offer more poems and fragments than any previous collective edition, arranged in the order of their first circulation. These texts are followed by the most extensive collations hitherto available and detailed commentaries that describe their contextual origins and subsequent reception. Rejected passages of released poems appear as supplements to those poems, while other poetic drafts that Shelley rejected or left incomplete at his death will be grouped according to either their publication histories or the notebooks in which they survive.
Volume One includes Shelley's first four works containing poetry (all prepared for publication before his expulsion from Oxford), as well as "The Devil's Walk" (circulated in August 1812), and a series of short poems that he sent to friends between 1809 and 1814, including a bawdy satire on his parents and "Oh wretched mortal," a poem never before published. An appendix discusses poems lost or erroneously attributed to the young Shelley. "These early poems are important not only biographically but also aesthetically, for they provide detailed evidence of how Shelley went about learning his craft as a poet, and the differences between their tone and that of his mature short poetry index a radical change in his self-image...The poems in Volume I, then, demonstrate Shelley's capacity to write verse in a range of stylistic registers. This early verse, even in its most abandoned forays into Sensibility, the Gothic, political satire, and vulgarity-perhaps especially in these most apparently idiosyncratic gestures-provides telling access to its own cultural moment, as well as to Shelley's art and thought in general."-from the Editorial Overview
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Editorial Overview Abbreviations Texts Original Poetry: by Victor and Cazire The Wandering Jew
- or, The Victim of the External Avenger Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson
- Being Poems Found Amongst the Papers of the Noted Female who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786 Poems from St. Irvyne
- or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance The Devil's Walk Ten Early Poems (1809-1814) Commentaries Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire The Wandering Jew
- or, The Victim of the External Avenger Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson Poems from St. Irvyne
- or, The Rosicrucian The Devil's Walk Ten Early Poems (1809-1814) Historical Collations Introduction Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire The Wandering Jew
- or, The Victim of the External Avenger Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson Poems from St. Irvyne
- or, The Rosicrucian The Devil's Walk Ten Early Poems (1809-1814) Appendixes Introduction A. Latin School Exercises B. Prose Treated as Poems C. Lost Works D. Dubia E. Misattributions Index of Titles Index of First Lines
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v. 2 ISBN 9780801878749
Description
Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works "should form one volume"; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: Queen Mab and The Esdaile Notebook. Privately issued in 1813, Queen Mab was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled A Philosophical Poem: With Notes, it became his most influential-and pirated-poem during much of the nineteenth century, a favorite among reformers and radicals. The Esdaile Notebook, a cycle of fifty-eight early poems, exhibits an astonishing range of verse forms. Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft. As in the acclaimed first volume, these works have been critically edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. The poems are presented as Shelley intended, with textual variants included in footnotes.
Following the poems are extensive discussions of the circumstances of their composition and the influences they reflect; their publication or circulation by other means; their reception at the time of publication and in the decades since; their re-publication, both authorized and unauthorized; and their place in Shelley's intellectual and aesthetic development.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Editorial Overview Abbreviations Texts The Esdaile Notebook Advertisement Queen Mab
- A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. Notes. [Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab] Commentaries The Esdaile Notebook Queen Mab
- A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab Historical Collations Introduction The Esdaile Notebook Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab Queen Mab
- A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab Appendixes Introduction A. Poetic Forms in The Esdaile Notebook B. Mary W. Shelley's "Note on Queen Mab" I. From the 1839 Edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,Volume I. II. From the 1840 Revised Edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Index of Titles Index of First Lines
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v. 3 ISBN 9781421401362
Description
"His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled "Alastor", or "The Spirit of Solitude"". With these words, the radical journalist and poet Leigh Hunt announced his discovery in 1816 of an extraordinary talent within "a new school of poetry rising of late." The third volume of the acclaimed edition of "The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley" includes "Alastor", one of Shelley's first major works, and all the poems that Shelley completed, for either private circulation or publication, during the turbulent years from 1814 to March 1818: "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", "Mont Blanc, Laon and Cythna", as well as shorter pieces, such as his most famous sonnet, "Ozymandias". It was during these years that Shelley, already an accomplished and practiced poet with three volumes of published verse, authored two major volumes, earned international recognition, and became part of the circle that was later called the Younger Romantics. As with previous volumes, extensive discussions of the poems' composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work.
Among the appendixes are Mary W. Shelley's 1839 notes on the poems for these years, a table of the forty-two revisions made to "Laon and Cythna" for its reissue as "The Revolt of Islam", and Shelley's errata list for the same. It is in the works included in this volume that the recognizable and characteristic voice of Shelley emerges-unmistakable, consistent, and vital.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editorial Overview
Abbreviations
I. Texts
II. Commentaries
III. Historical Collations
IV. Appendixes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
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