The Poems of Shelley: Volume Five

1821–1822

Carlene Adamson,Will Bowers,Jack Donovan,Kelvin Everest,Mathelinda Nabugodi,Michael Rossington

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781317700784
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Critica letteraria inglese

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the fifth volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present 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 furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley's varied and allusive verse.

Most of the poems in the present volume were composed between late summer 1821 and late January 1822. They include Hellas, a lyrical drama written in support of the Greek War of Independence, composed in September–November 1821 and published in February–March 1822, his unfinished tragedy Charles the First which he had been planning for several years, as well as important shorter poems such as 'The Indian Girl's Song', 'Autumn: a Dirge' and his 'Epitaph' for John Keats.

In addition to accompanying commentaries, there are extensive bibliographies to the poems, a chronological table of Shelley's life and publications, and indexes to titles and first lines. Now completed, this is the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Note by the General Editors
• Note On Illustrations
• Preface to Volume Five
• Acknowledgements
• Chronological Table of Shelley’s Life and Publications
• Abbreviations
• The Poems
• Appendix A: The Order of the Poems in 1822
• Appendix B: ‘[ ? ] / As When Within a Chasm of [?mighty] Seas’
• Appendix C: ‘O Thou Whose Cold Hand Tears the Veils From Error’: (Translation of Petrarch, Africa Vi 901–2)
• Index of Titles
• Index of First Lines