The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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This volume contains a complete collection of poetry written by the seminal Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelly. Shelley's poetry is infused with his belief in the power of human love and his faith in the perpetual improvement and ultimate progress of human kind. His lyric poems, for which he is famous, are exquisite in their beauty, profundity, and masterful composure. This collection would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and is highly recommended for all poetry lovers. The poems contained herein include: "Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem", "To Harriet", "Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude", "Alastor, The Revolt of Islam", "Canto First", "Canto Second", etcetera - as well as substantial introductory notes. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Sujets

• Islam
• Scottish
• Welsh
• European
• Poetry
• English
• Irish

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• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 06 mai 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781473394285
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Volume I, II and III
BY
THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH.


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Contents
Percy Bysshe Shelley
VOLUME I
Editor’s Preface
Preface By Mrs. Shelley To First Collected Edition, 1839.
Postscript In Second Edition Of 1839.
Preface By Mrs. Shelley To The Volume Of Posthumous Poems Published In 1824.
The Daemon Of The World. A Fragment.
Alastor: Or, The Spirit Of Solitude.
The Revolt Of Islam. A Poem In Twelve Cantos.
Prince Athanase. A Fragment.
Rosalind And Helen. A Modern Eclogue.
Julian And Maddalo. A Conversation.
Prometheus Unbound. A Lyrical Drama In Four Acts.
The Cenci. A Tragedy In Five Acts.
Dramatis Personae:
The Mask Of Anarchy.
Peter Bell The Third.
Letter To Maria Gisborne.
The Witch Of Atlas.
Dramatis Personae.
Epipsychidion.
Adonais. An Elegy On The Death Of John Keats, Author Of Endymion, Hyperion, Etc.
Hellas. A Lyrical Drama.
Hellas.
(8) Saturn And Love Their Long Repose Shall Burst [L. 1090].
Note On Hellas, By Mrs. Shelley.
Fragments Of An Unfinished Drama.
Charles The First.
The Triumph Of Life.
Cancelled Opening Of The Triumph Of Life.
VOLUME II
Early Poems [1814, 1815].
Stanza, Written At Bracknell.
Stanzas.—April, 1814.
To Harriet.
To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
To —. ‘Yet Look On Me’
Mutability.
On Death.
A Summer Evening Churchyard.
To —. ‘Oh! There Are Spirits Of The Air’.
To Wordsworth.
Feelings Of A Republican On The Fall Of Bonaparte.
Lines. ‘The Cold Earth Slept Below’
Note On The Early Poems, By Mrs. Shelley.
Poems Written In 1816.
The Sunset.
Hymn To Intellectual Beauty.
Mont Blanc.
Cancelled Passage Of Mont Blanc.
Fragment: Home.
Fragment Of A Ghost Story.
Note On Poems Of 1816, By Mrs. Shelley.
Poems Written In 1817.
Marianne’s Dream.
To Constantia, Singing.
Stanzas 1 And 2.
To Constantia.
Fragment: To One Singing.
A Fragment: To Music.
Another Fragment: To Music.
‘Mighty Eagle’.
To The Lord Chancellor.
To William Shelley.
From The Original Draft Of The Poem To William Shelley.
On Fanny Godwin.
Lines. ‘That Time Is Dead For Ever’.
Death.
Otho.
Fragments Supposed To Be Parts Of Otho.
‘O That A Chariot Of Cloud Were Mine’.
A Hate-Song.
Lines To A Critic.
Ozymandias.
Note On Poems Of 1817, By Mrs. Shelley.
Poems Written In 1818.
To The Nile.
Passage Of The Apennines.
The Past.
To Mary —.
On A Faded Violet.
Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills.
Scene From ‘Tasso’.
Song For ‘Tasso’.
Invocation To Misery.
Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples.
The Woodman And The Nightingale.
Sonnet. ‘Lift Not The Painted Veil’.
Fragment: To Byron.
Note On Poems Of 1818, By Mrs. Shelley.
Poems Written In 1819.
Lines Written During The Castlereagh Administration.
Song To The Men Of England.
Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819.
Fragment: To The People Of England.
A New National Anthem.
Sonnet: England In 1819.
An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty.
Cancelled Stanza.
Ode To Heaven.
Ode To The West Wind.
An Exhortation.
The Indian Serenade.
Cancelled Passage.
To Sophia [Miss Stacey].
To William Shelley. 1
To William Shelley. 2
To Mary Shelley. 1
To Mary Shelley. 2
On The Medusa Of Leonardo Da Vinci In The Florentine Gallery.
Love’s Philosophy.
Fragment: ‘Follow To The Deep Wood’s Weeds’.
The Birth Of Pleasure.
Fragment: Love The Universe To-Day.
Variation Of The Song Of The Moon.
Cancelled Stanza Of The Mask Of Anarchy.
Note On Poems Of 1819, By Mrs. Shelley.
Poems Written In 1820.
The Sensitive Plant.
Cancelled Passage.
A Vision Of The Sea.
The Cloud.
To A Skylark.
Ode To Liberty.
Cancelled Passage Of The Ode To Liberty.
To —. ‘I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden’.
Arethusa.
Song Of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers On The Plain Of Enna.
Hymn Of Apollo.
Hymn Of Pan.
The Question.
The Two Spirits: An Allegory.
Ode To Naples.
Autumn: A Dirge.
The Waning Moon.
To The Moon.
Death.
Liberty.
Summer And Winter.
The Tower Of Famine.
An Allegory.
The World’s Wanderers.
Sonnet: ‘Ye Hasten To The Grave!’.
Lines To A Reviewer.
Fragment Of A Satire On Satire.
Good-Night.
Buona Notte.
Orpheus.
Fiordispina.
Time Long Past.
Fragment: The Deserts Of Dim Sleep.
Note On Poems Of 1820, By Mrs. Shelley.
Poems Written In 1821.
Dirge For The Year.
To Night.
Time.
Lines: ‘Far, Far Away’.
From The Arabic: An Imitation.
To Emilia Viviani.
The Fugitives.
To —. ‘Music, When Soft Voices Die’.
Song: ‘Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou’.
Mutability.
Lines Written On Hearing The News Of The Death Of Napoleon.
Sonnet: Political Greatness.
The Aziola.
A Lament.
Remembrance.
To Edward Williams.
To —. ‘One Word Is Too Often Profaned’.
To —. ‘When Passion’s Trance Is Overpast’.
A Bridal Song.
Epithalamium.
Love, Hope, Desire, And Fear.
Fragments Written For Hellas.
Fragment: ‘I Would Not Be A King’.
Ginevra.
Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
The Boat On The Serchio.
Music.
Sonnet To Byron.
Fragment On Keats.
Fragment: ‘Methought I Was A Billow In The Crowd’.
To-Morrow.
Stanza. ‘If I Walk In Autumn’s Even’.
Fragments
Note On Poems Of 1821, By Mrs. Shelley.
Poems Written In 1822.
The Zucca.
The Magnetic Lady To Her Patient.
Lines: ‘When The Lamp Is Shattered’.
To Jane: The Invitation.
To Jane: The Recollection.
The Pine Forest Of The Cascine Near Pisa.
With A Guitar, To Jane.
To Jane: ‘The Keen Stars Were Twinkling’.
A Dirge.
Lines Written In The Bay Of Lerici.
Lines: ‘We Meet Not As We Parted’.
The Isle.
Fragment: To The Moon.
Epitaph.
Note On Poems Of 1822, By Mrs. Shelley.
VOLUME III
Translations.
Hymn To Mercury. Translated From The Greek Of Homer.
Homer’s Hymn To Castor And Pollux.
Homer’s Hymn To The Moon.
Homer’s Hymn To The Sun.
Homer’s Hymn To The Earth: Mother Of All.
Homer’s Hymn To Minerva.
Homer’s Hymn To Venus.
Epigrams.
1.—To Stella. From The Greek Of Plato.
2.—Kissing Helena. From The Greek Of Plato.
3.—Spirit Of Plato. From The Greek.
4.—Circumstance. From The Greek.
Fragment Of The Elegy On The Death Of Adonis. Prom The Greek Of Bion.
Fragment Of The Elegy On The Death Of Bion. From The Greek Of Moschus.
Pan, Echo, And The Satyr. From The Greek Of Moschus.
From Vergil’s Tenth Eclogue.
The Same.
From Vergil’s Fourth Georgic.
Sonnet. From The Italian Of Dante.
The First Canzone Of The Convito. From The Italian Of Dante.
Matilda Gathering Flowers. From The Purgatorio Of Dante, Canto 28, Lines 1-51.
Fragment. Adapted From The Vita Nuova Of Dante.
Ugolino.
Sonnet. From The Italian Of Cavalcanti.
Scenes From The Magico Prodigioso. From The Spanish Of Calderon.
Stanzas From Calderon’s Cisma De Inglaterra.
Scenes From The Faust Of Goethe.
Juvenilia. Queen Mab. A Philosophical Poem, With Notes.
Verses On A Cat.
Fragment: Omens.
In Horologium.
A Dialogue.
To The Moonbeam.
The Solitary.
To Death.
Love’s Rose.
Eyes: A Fragment.
Original Poetry By Victor And Cazire.
1. ‘Here I Sit With My Paper, My Pen And My Ink’
2. To Miss — — [Harriet Grove] From Miss — — [Elizabeth Shelley].
3. Song, ‘Cold, Cold Is The Blast’.
4. Song, ‘Come [Harriet]! Sweet Is The Hour’.
5. Song. Despair.
6. Song. Sorrow.
7. Song. Hope.
8. Song. Translated From The Italian.
9. Song. Translated From The German.
10. The Irishman’s Song.
11. Song.
12. Song. To [Harriet].
13. Song. To — [Harriet].
14. Saint Edmond’s Eve.
15. Revenge.
16. Ghasta Or, The Avenging Demon!!!
17. Fragment, Or The Triumph Of Conscience.
Poems From St. Irvyne, Or, The Rosicrucian.
1.—Victoria.
2.—On The Dark Height Of Jura.
3.—Sister Rosa: A Ballad.
4.—St. Irvyne’s Tower.
5.—Bereavement.
6.—The Drowned Lover.
Posthumous Fragments Of Margaret Mcholson.
Advertisement.
War.
Fragment: Supposed To Be An Epithalamium Of Francis Ravaillac And Charlotte Corday.
Despair.
Fragment.
The Spectral Horseman.
Melody To A Scene Of Former Times.
Stanza From A Translation Of The Marseillaise Hymn.
Bigotry’s Victim.
On An Icicle That Clung To The Grass Of A Grave.
Love.
On A Fete At Carlton House: Fragment.
To A Star.
To Mary Who Died In This Opinion.
A Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, 1811.
To The Republicans Of North America.
To Ireland.
On Robert Emmet’s Grave.
The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812.
Fragment Of A Sonnet. To Harriet.
Sonnet. To A Balloon Laden With Knowledge.
Sonnet. On Launching Some Bottles Filled With Knowledge Into The Bristol Cha