Selected poems and prose
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-18222016
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A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy. 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems 'Prometheus Unbound' and 'Adonais', an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include 'To a Skylark', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Ode to the West Wind'. This important new edition collects his best poetry and prose, revealing how his writings weave together the political, personal, visionary and idealistic.
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Selected poems and prose / Percy Bysshe Shelley ; edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.
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London Penguin Books, 2016.©2016
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xlvi, 893 pages ; 20 cm.
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Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.Also issued online.
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Contents note: SELECTED POEMS AND PROSE THE POEMS -- The Irishman's Song -- Song (`Fierce roars the midnight storm') -- `How eloquent are eyes!' -- Fragment, or The Triumph of Conscience -- Song (`Ah! faint are her limbs') -- The Monarch's funeral: An Anticipation -- A Winter's Day -- To the Republicans of North America -- On Robert Emmet's Tomb -- To Liberty -- Written on a Beautiful Day in Spring -- `Dark Spirit of the desart rude' -- The Retrospect: Cwm Elan 1812 -- Queen Mab -- `Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed' -- `O! there are spirits of the air' -- A Summer-Evening Church-Yard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire -- Sonnet. From the Italian of Dante -- To Wordsworth -- Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte -- Mutability -- Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude -- Verses written on receiving a Celandine in a letter from England -- Hymn to Intellectual Beauty [Versions A and B] -- Mont Blanc [Versions A and B] -- Dedication before LAON AND CYTHNA --Contents note continued: To Constantia -- Ozymandias -- Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October, 1818 -- Julian and Maddalo -- Stanzas Written in Dejection---December 1818, near Naples -- The Two Spirits---An Allegory -- Sonnet (`Lift not the painted veil') -- Prometheus Unbound -- The Cenci -- The Mask of Anarchy -- Peter Bell the Third -- Ode to the West Wind -- To S[idmouth] and C[astlereagh] -- Love's Philosophy -- Goodnight -- Time Long Past -- On a Dead Violet: To --- -- On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci, In the Florentine Gallery -- To Night -- England in 1819 -- Song: To the Men of England -- To --- (`Corpses are cold in the tomb') -- The Sensitive-Plant -- An Exhortation -- Song of Apollo -- Song of Pan -- The Cloud -- `God save the Queen!' [A New National Anthem] -- Translation of Dante's Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII, lines 1--51 -- Evening. Ponte a Mare, Pisa -- Ode to Liberty -- To a Sky-Lark -- Letter to Maria Gisborne -- To --- [the Lord Chancellor] --Contents note continued: The Witch of Atlas -- Sonnet: Political Greatness -- Sonnet (`Ye hasten to the grave!') -- The Fugitives -- Memory (`Rose leaves, when the rose is dead') -- Dirge for the Year -- Epipsychidion -- Adonais -- `When passion's trance is overpast' -- Written on hearing the news of the death of Napoleon -- Epithalamium -- The Aziola -- Hellas -- `The flower that smiles today' -- The Indian Girl's Song -- `Rough wind that moanest loud' -- To the Moon -- Remembrance -- Lines to --- [Sonnet to Byron] -- To --- (`The serpent is shut out from Paradise') -- To Jane. The Invitation -- To Jane---The Recollection -- `When the lamp is shattered' -- `One word is too often prophaned' -- The Magnetic lady to her patient -- With a Guitar. To Jane -- `Far, far away, O ye / Halcyons of Memory -- `Tell me star, whose wings of light' -- The Triumph of Life -- To Jane (`The keen stars were twinkling') -- Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici -- THE PROSE --Contents note continued: From History of a Six Weeks' Tour -- From Preface to LAON AND CYTHNA -- An Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte -- From On Christianity -- On Love -- On Life -- The Coliseum -- From On the Devil, and Devils -- From A Philosophical View of Reform -- A Defence of Poetry.
ISBN:
9780241253069 (paperback)
Dewey class:
821.7
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English
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BRN:
86983