Selections from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Selections from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A. Hamilton Thompson
A. Hamilton Thompson
January 2010
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Edited by the historian Alexander Hamilton Thompson, this volume offers an introduction to the poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The selection, compiled and introduced by Professor Hamilton, are supplemented with extensive notes shedding light on the circumstances of the poems and elucidating the references, literary and otherwise, which proliferated Shelley's works. First published in 1915, this volumes remains a useful survey of the works of one of England's most celebrated Romantic poets.
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January 2010Paperback
9780521126205
232 pages
203 × 127 × 13 mm
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Table of Contents
- Principal dates in the life of Shelley
- Introduction
- Selections:
- 1. 'The Cold Earth Slept Below'
- 1. The Wandering Poet (from Alastor)
- 3. From The Revolt of Islam
- 4. 'That Time is Dead for Ever'
- 5. Ozymandias
- 6. The Dell by the Lakes of Como (from Rosalind and Helen)
- 7. Evening near Venice (from Julian and Maddalo)
- 8. The Past
- 9. Lines written among the Euganean Hills
- 10. Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples
- 11. From Prometheus Unbound
- 12. Ode to the West Wind
- 13. The Indian Serenade
- 14. The Lady of the Garden
- 15. The Cloud
- 16. To a Skylark
- 17. The Golden Age of Greece (from The Ode to Liberty)
- 18. Arethusa
- 19. Hymn of Pan
- 20. 'A far Eden of the purple East' (from Epipsychidion)
- 21. Adonais: an Elegy on the death of John Keats
- 22. The Coming of Christianity (from Hellas)
- 23. To Night
- 24. Time
- 25. Song
- 26. Mutability
- 27. A Lament
- 28. To ____
- 29. To ____
- 30. Lines
- 31. To Jane: the invitation
- 32. To Jane: the reconciliation
- 33. With a Guitar, to Jane
- 34. Archy's Song in Charles the First
- 35. A Dirge
- Notes
- Index to notes.
