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
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