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 fourth volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelleys poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Amongst the poem
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 fourth volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelleys 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 furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelleys varied and allusive verse.
Most of the poems in the present volume were written between late autumn 1820 and late summer 1821. They include Adonais, Shelleys lament on the death of John Keats, widely recognised as one of the finest elegies in English poetry, as well as Epipsychidion, a poem inspired by his relationship with the nineteen-year-old Teresa Viviani (Emilia), the object of an intense but temporary fascination for Shelley. The poems of this period show the extent both of Shelleys engagement with Keatss volume Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820) a copy of which he first read in October 1820 and of his interest in Italian history, culture and politics. Shelleys translations of some of his own poems into Italian and his original compositions in the language are also included here.
In addition to accompanying commentaries, there are extensive bibliographies to the poems, a chronological table of Shelleys life and publications, and indexes to titles and first lines. The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelleys poetry available to students and scholars.
Note on Illustrations
Preface to Volume Four
Acknowledgements
Publishers Acknowledgements
Chronological Table of Shelleys Life and Publications
Abbreviations
THE POEMS
359 There is a Spirit, whose inconstant home
360 I am as a Spirit who has dwelt
360 Appendix Fragments connected with I am as a Spirit who has dwelt
361 Methought I was a billow in the crowd
362 I went into the deserts of dim sleep
363 Into the plain, out of the mountains hoar
364 The path was broad
365 Such hope as is the sick despair of good
366 Italian translation of Prometheus Unbound II v 48110, IV 155 and 5782
367 Italian translation of Laon and Cythna ll. 66798
368 Thy beauty hangs around thee like
369 The Fugitives
369 Appendix Unused lines for The Fugitives
370 The Tower of Famine
371 Faint with love, the lady of the South
372 I faint, I perish with my loveI grow
373 Thy gentle face, [ ? ] dear
374 Il tuo viso, o [ ?vaga] [ ? ]
375 Che Emilia, chera pił bella [ a vedere]
376 E da la [ ?buona] che forse [ ?sfrenata]
377 The Woodman and the Nightingale
378 Fiordispina
378 Appendix Fragments connected with Fiordispina
379 Rose leaves, when the rose is dead
380 [ ?When] May is painting with her colours gay
381 Dirge for the Year
382 Aeschylus Fragment
383 I would not be, that which another is
384 Ye gentle visitations of calm thought
385 He has made / The wilderness a city of pavilions
386 Come da una avita quercia
387 Buona Notte
387 Appendix Medwins translation of Buona Notte
388 Ode alla Libertą
389 These are two friends whose lives were undivided
390 Ye who [ ] the third Heaven move
391 Epipsychidion
391 Appendix Fragments connected with Epipsychidion
392 O time, O night, O day
393 To Emilia Viviani
394 If shadows [ ? ] [ ?when] the [ ? ] lie
395 Dal spiro della tua mente, [ č] istinta
395 Appendix Cosi la Poesia, incarnata diva
396 Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun
397 The flowers have spread
398 Ginevra
399 A Lament (O World, O Life, O Time)
400 When passions trance is overpast
401 Epithalamium
402 From the wrecks of the gloomy past
403 Adonais
403 Appendix Unused stanzas for Adonais
404 It is a savage mountain slope
405 The Aziola
406 The Boat on the Serchio
407 Written on hearing the news of the death of Napoleon
408 A snake came to pay the mastiff a visit
Appendix A The Order of the Poems in 1822
Appendix B Orpheus
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
The Editors
Michael Rossington is Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK.
Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.
Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.
The General Editors
Paul Hammond, FBA, is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK.
David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.
The Founding General Editor
F. W. Bateson, who founded the series and acted as General Editor for its first generation of titles, was a distinguished critic and scholar. He was lecturer in English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the editor of the original Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and founding editor of the journal Essays in Criticism.
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