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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I (Paperback)
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I (Paperback)
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I (1914)
compiles some of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known works as a
leading poet, playwright, and political thinker of the nineteenth
century. As a leading figure among the English Romantics, Shelley
was a master of poetic form and tradition who recognized the need
for radical change in the social order. His work has influenced
such writers and intellectuals as Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, W. B.
Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. In Prometheus Unbound, a lyrical
drama, Shelley explores the story of Prometheus, a figure from
Greek mythology who stole the power of fire in defiance of the
gods. Giving fire to the human race, he sacrifices himself to an
eternity of torture. For Shelley, Prometheus represented the power
of revolutionary action, important to the poet as a follower of
radical anarchist William Godwin. The Masque of Anarchy is a
political poem written in response to the Peterloo Massacre of
1819, when a British cavalry unit attacked a group of protestors in
Manchester, injuring hundreds and killing eighteen. Adonais is an
elegy commemorating the life of Romantic poet John Keats, whose
death from tuberculosis at the age of 25 inspired Shelley to
compose one of his finest literary works. A pastoral elegy in the
tradition of John Milton's Lycidas, the poem declares "'With me /
Died Adonais; till the Future dares / Forget the Past, his fate and
fame shall be / An echo and a light unto eternity!'" Immortalizing
Keats, Shelley chillingly foreshadows his own tragic death, which
ended his promising career only a year later. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Complete Poetical Works of Percy
Bysshe Shelley Volume I is a classic of English literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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