"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.
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