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New editions and facsimiles of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works are
changing the landscape of Shelley studies by making complete
compositions and fragments that have received only limited critical
attention readily available to scholars. Building on the work begun
in Weinberg and Webb's 2009 volume, The Unfamiliar Shelley, The
Neglected Shelley sheds light on the breadth and depth of Shelley's
oeuvre, including the poet's earliest work, written when he was not
yet twenty and was experimenting with gothic romances, and other
striking forms of literary expression, such as two collections of
provocative verse. There are discussions of Shelley's collaboration
with Mary Shelley in the composition of Frankenstein, and his skill
as a translator of Greek poetry and drama, reflecting his urgent
concern with Greek culture. His contributions to prose are the
focus of essays on his letters, the subversive notes to Queen Mab,
and his complex engagement with Jewish culture. Shelley's
considerable corpus of fragments is well-represented in
contributions on the later narrative fiction, 'Athanase'/'Prince
Athanase', and the significant group of unfinished poems, including
'Mazenghi', 'Fiordispina', 'Ginevra' and 'The Boat on the Serchio',
that treat Italian topics. Finally, there are explorations of
subtle though neglected or underestimated works such as Rosalind
and Helen, The Sensitive-Plant, and the verse-drama Hellas. The
Neglected Shelley shows that even the poet's apparently slighter
works are important in their own right and are richly instructive
as expressions of Shelley's developing art of composition and the
diverse interests he pursued throughout his career.
Stimulated by new editions of Shelley's writings and the evidence
of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of
international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of
recent advances in scholarship. With particular attention to texts
that have been neglected or underestimated, the contributors
consider many important aspects of Shelley's prolific and
remarkably diverse output, including the verse letter, plays, prose
essays, satire, pamphlets, political verse, romance, prefaces,
translations from the Greek, prose style, artistic representations,
fragments and early writings. Revaluations of Shelley's youthful
works, often criticized for their over-exuberance, pay dividends as
they reveal Shelley's early maturation as a writer and also shed
light on his later achievement. Taken as a whole, the collection
makes evident that Shelley's reputation has been based largely on
surprisingly imperfect and incomplete edited publications, driven
by Victorian taste and culture. A writer very different from the
one we thought we knew emerges from these essays, which are sure to
inspire more reappraisals of Shelley's work.
New editions and facsimiles of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works are
changing the landscape of Shelley studies by making complete
compositions and fragments that have received only limited critical
attention readily available to scholars. Building on the work begun
in Weinberg and Webb's 2009 volume, The Unfamiliar Shelley, The
Neglected Shelley sheds light on the breadth and depth of Shelley's
oeuvre, including the poet's earliest work, written when he was not
yet twenty and was experimenting with gothic romances, and other
striking forms of literary expression, such as two collections of
provocative verse. There are discussions of Shelley's collaboration
with Mary Shelley in the composition of Frankenstein, and his skill
as a translator of Greek poetry and drama, reflecting his urgent
concern with Greek culture. His contributions to prose are the
focus of essays on his letters, the subversive notes to Queen Mab,
and his complex engagement with Jewish culture. Shelley's
considerable corpus of fragments is well-represented in
contributions on the later narrative fiction, 'Athanase'/'Prince
Athanase', and the significant group of unfinished poems, including
'Mazenghi', 'Fiordispina', 'Ginevra' and 'The Boat on the Serchio',
that treat Italian topics. Finally, there are explorations of
subtle though neglected or underestimated works such as Rosalind
and Helen, The Sensitive-Plant, and the verse-drama Hellas. The
Neglected Shelley shows that even the poet's apparently slighter
works are important in their own right and are richly instructive
as expressions of Shelley's developing art of composition and the
diverse interests he pursued throughout his career.
Stimulated by new editions of Shelley's writings and the evidence
of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of
international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of
recent advances in scholarship. With particular attention to texts
that have been neglected or underestimated, the contributors
consider many important aspects of Shelley's prolific and
remarkably diverse output, including the verse letter, plays, prose
essays, satire, pamphlets, political verse, romance, prefaces,
translations from the Greek, prose style, artistic representations,
fragments and early writings. Revaluations of Shelley's youthful
works, often criticized for their over-exuberance, pay dividends as
they reveal Shelley's early maturation as a writer and also shed
light on his later achievement. Taken as a whole, the collection
makes evident that Shelley's reputation has been based largely on
surprisingly imperfect and incomplete edited publications, driven
by Victorian taste and culture. A writer very different from the
one we thought we knew emerges from these essays, which are sure to
inspire more reappraisals of Shelley's work.
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Selected Poems (Paperback, REI)
William Yeats; Introduction by Timothy Webb; Notes by Timothy Webb
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R270
R211
Discovery Miles 2 110
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Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W. B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. This selection includes the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin and a number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist. This edition breaks new ground in presenting alternative versions of a dozen poems and a number of significant variants. It also includes explanatory and textual notes for each poem.
The type of personal ornamentation an individual wears is a matter
of choice. Preferences in objects worn reflect local culture as
well as the available materials. Thus, when the Roman army
conquered the local indigenous population, there was potential for
the personal ornamentation artifact assemblage of both groups to
adopt and incorporate items and iconography from one another.
Evidence of mutual influences in personal ornamentation from across
the Roman Empire and local Britons were indicators of cultural
change in the north of England. This blending of cultural
traditions, in turn, leads to the formation of a unique northern
Romano-British cultural assemblage. Furthermore, different types of
personal ornaments and their iconography relate to several causal
factors, including chronology, socio-economic factors (i.e. gender,
ethnicity, and wealth) and geography. The northern Romano-British
assemblage of personal ornamentation also provides an opportunity
for further insight into these factors.
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