Title: Shelley's poetry and prose : authoritative texts, criticism /
Authors: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822; Powers, Sharon B.; Reiman, Donald H.
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: Shelley's poetry has gone in and out of fashion since his death in 1822--first considered immature, excessive, and even incoherent but later judged by critics to be among the great poems of the English language. At its best, his poetry is unparalleled for its range of metrical experimentation, its moral rigor, and its lush, sensual imagery. He has been staunchly championed by poets from Byron to Wordsworth to Yeats.
Contents: The Poems -- from The Esdaile Notebook -- Zeinab and Kathema -- The Retrospect -- Sonnet: To a Balloon, lLden with Knowledge -- To the Emperors of Russia and Austria . . . -- Queen Mab -- Alastor -- Stanzas. -- April, 1814 -- Mutability ("We are as Clouds") -- To Wordsworth -- Mont Blanc -- Hymn to Intellectual Beauty -- from Laon and Cythna (later The Revolt of Islam) -- Dedication -- Canto IX, stanzas 20-28 -- To Constantia -- Ozymandias -- Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills -- Julian and Maddalo -- Stanzas Written in Dejection -- December 1818, Near Naples -- The Two Spirits -- An Allegory -- Prometheus Unbound -- The Sensitive-Plant -- Ode to Heaven -- Ode to the West Wind -- The Cloud -- To a Sky-Lark -- Ode to Liberty -- The Cenci -- The Mask of Anarchy -- Sonnet: England in 1819 -- Sonnet: To the Republic of Benevento -- Sonnet ("Lift not the Painted Veil") -- Sonnet ("Ye Hasten to the Grave!") -- Letter to Maria Gisborne -- Peter Bell the Third -- The Witch of Atlas --^