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The Poems of Shelley: Volume One - 1804-1817 (Hardcover, New)
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The Poems of Shelley: Volume One - 1804-1817 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Longman Annotated English Poets
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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.
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