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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000-2004 (OCoLC)607372972 |
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| Named Person: | Percy Bysshe Shelley; Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Percy Bysshe Shelley; Donald H Reiman; Neil Fraistat |
| ISBN: | 0801861195 9780801861192 0801878748 9780801878749 9781421401362 1421401363 |
| OCLC Number: | 41096094 |
| Description: | 3 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Original Poetry: by Victor and Cazire -- Letter [1] ("Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink") -- Letter [2] (To Miss - From Miss -) -- Song. ("Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling") -- Song. ("Come! sweet is the hour") -- Song. Despair -- Song. Sorrow -- Song. Hope -- Song. Translated from the Italian -- Song. Translated from the German -- The Irishman's Song -- Song. ("Fierce roars the midnight storm") -- Song. ("Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain") -- Song. ("Stern, stern is the voice of fate's fearfull command") -- Saint Edmond's Eve -- Revenge -- Ghasta; or, The Avenging Demon!!! -- Fragment, or The Triumph of Conscience -- The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger -- Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems Found Amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786 -- "Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurl'd" -- Fragment. Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corde -- Despair -- Fragment. ("Yes! all is past--swift time has fled away") -- The Spectral Horseman -- Melody to a Scene of Former Times -- Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance -- "'T was dead of the night, when I sat in my dwelling" -- "Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling" -- Ballad. ("The death-bell beats!--") -- Song. ("How swiftly through heaven's wide expanse") -- Song. ("How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner") -- Song. ("Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary") -- The Devil's Walk. |
| Other Titles: | Poems |
| Responsibility: | edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. |
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The detail and precision of the textual editing here are exemplary: the publication history of the poems, along with the tangled manuscript evidence behind and alongside the original volumes, is dealt with clearly and (when need be) decisively, to produce a hugely authoritative-as well as huge-edition. -- Peter McDonald Times Literary Supplement 2013 This latest installment of The Complete Poetry is nothing less than a landmark in Shelley studies: comprehensive and reliable, necessary and illuminating. -- Susan Wolfson, Princeton University Keats-Shelley Journal Now that Shelley's poetry is coming into such revealing clarity of focus, thanks to editions such as this one, the question of its value can be explored with more confidence than ever before. -- Peter McDonald Times Literary Supplement 2013 This is a critical volume of Shelley's works for the 21st century-in short, a scholarly masterpiece. No academic library should be without it. Choice 2013 Read more...
