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Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

ISBN-13: 9781421401362
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edited by Donald H. Reiman, Edited by Neil Fraistat, Edited by Nora Crook, Edited by Stuart Curran, Edited by Michael O'Neill, Edited by Michael J. Neth, Edited by David Brookshire
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Local release date: 13/09/2012
Format: Hardback 1152 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Poetry [DC]

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'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, either for 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 is during these years that Shelley, already an accomplished and practiced poet with three volumes of published verse, authors two major volumes, earns international recognition, and becomes 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 appendices 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 is heard unmistakably, consistently, and with fresh vitality.

""What makes this volume so exceptional (like its predecessors) is not only the state-of-the-art editing, but also the knowledgeable commentaries that give information on the poems' composition, possible sources and influences, publication, and most welcome, their reception history. These latter passages give exceptional guidance and allow scholar and amateur alike to make themselves familiar with the critical debate... This gigantic editorial project cannot be praised highly enough. It meets the severest standards of modern editing... The whole scholarly community is deeply indebted to everyone involved in this collaborative enterprise.""

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