The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Tom 2Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 - 920 Winners of an Honorable Mention from the Modern Language Association's Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works "should form one volume"; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: Queen Mab and The Esdaile Notebook. Privately issued in 1813, Queen Mab was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled A Philosophical Poem: With Notes, it became his most influential—and pirated—poem during much of the nineteenth century, a favorite among reformers and radicals. The Esdaile Notebook, a cycle of fifty-eight early poems, exhibits an astonishing range of verse forms. Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft. As in the acclaimed first volume, these works have been critically edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. The poems are presented as Shelley intended, with textual variants included in footnotes. Following the poems are extensive discussions of the circumstances of their composition and the influences they reflect; their publication or circulation by other means; their reception at the time of publication and in the decades since; their re-publication, both authorized and unauthorized; and their place in Shelley's intellectual and aesthetic development. |
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... thing of gloom ? .. On Nature's unreviving tomb Where sapless , blasted and alone She mourns her blooming centuries gone ! — From the fresh sod the Violets peep , The buds have burst their frozen sleep , Whilst every green and peopled ...
... thing but account for their conviction , describe the time at which it happened , or the manner in which it came upon them . It is supposed to enter the mind by other channels than those of the senses , and therefore professes to be ...
... thing because he is sure , if the ordinary operations of the spirit are not to be considered very extraordinary modes of demonstration , if enthusiasm is to usurp the place of proof , and madness that of sanity , all reasoning is super ...
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Acknowledgments | xiii |
TEXTS | xxii |
Esd 4 Passion to | 11 |
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