The Poems of Shelley: Volume One

This is the first edition of Shelley to present the poetry in chronological order with full annotation, and the first to make full use of the wealth of manuscript material and scholarship that exists on Shelley. Volume 1 contains a mass of new and important material such as the early 'Esdaile' poems and the whole of the 'Scope Davis' noteboo

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley's poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes supply the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley's varied and allusive verse.

The present volume includes the 'Esdaile' poems, which only entered the public domain in the 1950s, printed in chronological order and integrated with the rest of Shelley's early output, and Queen Mab, the first of Shelley's major poems, together with its extensive prose notes. The seminal Alastor volume is placed in the detailed context of Shelley's overall poetic development. The 'Scrope Davies' notebook, only discovered in 1976, furnishes two otherwise unknown sonnets as well as alternative versions of 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' and 'Mont Blanc', which significantly influence our understanding of these important poems.

This first volume contains new datings, and makes numerous corrections to long-established errors and misunderstandings in the transmission of Shelley's work. Its annotations and headnotes provide new perspectives on Shelley's literary, philosophical and political development The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.

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Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest

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Note by the General Editor, John Barnard; Chronological Table of Shelley's Life and Publications, Geoffrey Matthews; Part 1 The Poems Chapter 1'A Cat in distress' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 2 Written in Very Early Youth , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 3 Sadak the Wanderer. A Fragment , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 4 To the Moonbeam , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 5 Song. Translated from the German , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 6 The Irishman's Song , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 7 Henry and Louisa , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 8 Revenge , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 9 Song , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 10 Ghasta; or the Avenging Demon!!! , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 11 The Wandering Jew; or the Victim of the Eternal Avenger , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 12 Olympia , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 13 The Revenge , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 14 February 28th 1805: To St Irvyne , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 15 Song , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 16 'How swiftly through Heaven's wide expanse' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 17 'How eloquent are eyes!' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 18 'Hopes that bud in youthful breasts' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 19 Song: Despair , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 20 'Cold are the blasts' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 21 Song. Translated from the Italian , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 22 Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 23 Song: Sorrow , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 24 Song: Hope , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 25 Song: To-- , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 26 Song: To -- , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 27 Song: 'How stern are the woes' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 28 Song: 'Ah! faint are her limbs' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 29 'Late was the night' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 30 'Ghosts of the dead!' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 31 Ballad: 'The death-bell beats!' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 32 'Ambition, power, and avarice' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 33 Fragment. Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 34 Despair , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 35 Fragment , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 36 The Spectral Horseman , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 37 Melody to a Scene of Former Times , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 38 To Mary-I , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 39 To Mary-II , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 40 To Mary who died in this opinion , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 41 To Mary-III , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 42 To the Lover of Mary , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 43 To Death , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 44 To the Emperors of Russia and Austria , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 45 To Liberty , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 46 The Solitary , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 47 The Monarch's Funeral: An Anticipation , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 48 The Wandering Jew's Soliloquy , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 49 'I will kneel at thine altar' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 50 On an Icicle that clung to the grass of a grave , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 51 Fragment of a Poem , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 52 A Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 53 'Dares the llama' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 54 A Dialogue , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 55 'Why is it said thou canst but live' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 56 Letter to Edward Fergus Graham , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 57 Second Letter to Edward Fergus Graham , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 58 Zeinab and Kathema , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 59 'Sweet star!' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 60 On a Fête at Carlton House , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 61 Written at Cwm Elan , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 62 'Death-spurning rocks!' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 63 To Harriet * , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 64 To November , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 65 'Full many a mind with radiant genius fraught' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 66 Passion: To the [Woody Nightshade] , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 67 A Winter's Day , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 68 A Tale of Society as it is: from facts, 1811 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 69 A Sabbath Walk , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 70 The Crisis , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 71 The Tombs , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 72 On Robert Emmet's Tomb , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 73 To the Republicans of North America , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 74 'The Ocean rolls between us' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 75 'Bear witness, Erin!' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 76 Falsehood and Vice: A Dialogue , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 77 Written on a Beautiful Day in Spring , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 78 'Dark Spirit of the desert rude' , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 79 The Retrospect: Cwm Elan 1812 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 80 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 81 Mary to the Sea-Wind , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 82 Sonnet: To Harriet on her Birthday, August 1 1812 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 83 The Devil's Walk: A Ballad , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 84 Sonnet: On Launching some Bottles filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 85 Sonnet: To a Balloon, Laden with Knowledge , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 86 A Retrospect of Times of Old , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 87 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 88 Sonnet: On Waiting for a Wind to Cross the Bristol Channel from Devonshire to Wales , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 89 The Voyage. A Fragment... Devonshire-August 1812 , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 90 On Leaving London for Wales , Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 91 To Harriet , Percy Bysshe Shell…