The complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley / edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Contributor:

Reiman, Donald H.

Fraistat, Neil, 1952-

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Genre:

Poems.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000-

Summary:

A landmark event in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of all poems and translations that Shelley published or circulated among friends, as well as diplomatic texts of his significant incomplete poetic drafts and fragments. Edited upon historical principles by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, the multi-volume edition will offer more poems and fragments than any previous collective edition, arranged in the order of their first circulation. These texts are followed by the most extensive collations hitherto available and detailed commentaries that describe their contextual origins and subsequent reception. Rejected passages of released poems appear as supplements to those poems, while other poetic drafts that Shelley rejected or left incomplete at his death will be grouped according to either their publication histories or the notebooks in which they survive. 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 Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft.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.

Contents:

Texts

Original Poetry / Victor, Cazire 3

Letter [1] ("Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink") 7

Letter [2] (To Miss _ From Miss _) 9

Song. ("Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling") 11

Song. ("Come _! sweet is the hour") 13

Song. Despair 14

Song. Sorrow 15

Song. Hope 16

Song. Translated from the Italian 17

Song. Translated from the German 18

The Irishman's Song 18

Song. ("Fierce roars the midnight storm") 19

Song. To _ ("Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain") 20

Song. To _ ("Stern, stern is the voice of fate's fearfull command") 21

Saint Edmond's Eve 22

Revenge 28

Ghasta; or, The Avenging Demon!!! 30

Fragment, or The Triumph of Conscience 37

The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger 39

Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems Found Amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786 / Edited by John Fitzvictor 89

Advertisement 92

"Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurl'd" 93

Fragment. Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corde 95

Despair 99

Fragment. ("Yes! all is past

swift time has fled away") 100

The Spectral Horseman 101

Melody to a Scene of Former Times 102

Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance 105

"'T was dead of the night, when I sat in my dwelling" 109

"Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling" 110

Ballad. ("The death-bell beats!_") 111

Song. ("How swiftly through heaven's wide expanse") 114

Song. ("How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner") 115

Song. ("Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary") 116

The Devil's Walk 119

The Devil's Walk, a Ballad 123

Supplement: Letter Version of The Devil's Walk 128

Ten Early Poems (1809-1814) 131

"A Cat in distress" 135

"How swiftly through Heaven's wide expanse" 136

"Oh wretched mortal, hard thy fate!" 138

To Mary who died in this opinion 138

"Why is it said thou canst but live" 139

"As you will see I wrote to you" [1st letter to E. F. Graham] 140

"Dear dear dear dear dear dear Graeme!" [2nd letter to E. F. Graham] 142

"Sweet star! which gleaming oer the darksome scene" 144

"Bear witness Erin! when thine injured isle" 145

"Thy dewy looks sink in my breast" 145

Original Poetry / Victor, Cazire 149

The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger 189

Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson 235

Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian 261

The Devil's Walk 281

Ten Early Poems (1809-1814) 295

Historical Collations

Original Poetry / Victor, Cazire 335

The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger 355

Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson 375

Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian 387

The Devil's Walk 403

Ten Early Poems (1809-1814) 411

A. Latin School Exercises 435

Epitaphium 435

In Horologium 437

B. Prose Treated as Poems 438

"The Ocean rolls between us" 438

"Oh Ireland!" 441

C. Lost Works 442

Satirical Poem on "L'infame" 443

Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things 444

On a Fete at Carlton House 448

Essay on War 451

God Save the King 452

D. Dubia 453

Poems in the Oxford University and City Herald 453

Ode, to the Breath of Summer 455

The Grape. From the Greek Anthologia 455

Epigram, from the Greek Anthologia. ("We that were wont") 456

Translation of an Epigram of Vincent Bourne's 457

On Old Age, from the Greek Anthology 458

Venus and the Muses, from the Same 458

Unattributed Epigraphs to St. Irvyne 458

Sadak the Wanderer. A Fragment 460

E. Misattributions 469

Epigraph: "If Satan had never fallen" 469

Lines, Addressed to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, on His Being Appointed Regent 469

The Modern Minerva; or, The Bat's Seminary for Young Ladies. A Satire on Female Education / Queen Mab 478

Anecdotes of Father Murdo 480

To the Queen of My Heart 482.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

ISBN:

0801861195

0801878748

OCLC:

41096094

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