Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, Volumes 1 and 2

by Percy B. Shelley, Kenneth Neill Cameron

Overview

The magnificent collection of “Shelley and His Circle” manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library is one of our finest sources for the English Romantic movement. This edition presents the more than 450 manuscripts from 1772 to 1822, over half of them by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Volumes I and II include a first accurate printing of Shelley’s letters to Thomas Hogg during a crucial period of his life; another series of letters records a struggle between Forman and Silsbee for acquisition of Shelley’s papers that was the background for Henry James’s Aspern Papers; Thomas Love Peacock, William Godwin, Leigh Hunt, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others are represented by materials (most of them previously unpublished) that throw much new light on their lives and times.

The Peacock and part of the Wollstonecraft manuscripts were edited by Eleanor L. Nicholes, and The Diary of Harriet Grove (Shelley’s boyhood sweetheart) by Frederick L. Jones. New and effective editorial, bibliographical and typographical methods were devised to deal with special problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674806108
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1961
Series:	Pforzheimer Library S
Pages:	1000
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 3.70(d)

About the Author

Donald H. Reiman, is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Table of Contents

VOLUME 7

List of Manuscripts and Essays


List of Illustrations and Maps


Foreword


Acknowledgments and Permissions


Editorial Procedures


Introduction

RETROSPECTIVE: MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS AND ESSAYS,1815-1819

RETROSPECTIVE: BYRON AND GUICCIOLI PAPERS,1816-1819

VOLUME 8

List of Manuscripts and Essays


List of Illustrations and Maps

MANUSCRIPTS AND ESSAYS, 1820

Works of Reference, Abridged Title List


Index of Names

Editorial Reviews

[The editors] have rescued the material from felonious footnotery primarily by enclosing it in a continuous narrative that contains detailed introductions to each of the characters of the circle, and a general background of their relationships and of the times. Urbanely written and seemingly omniscient within its area, this narrative is…lively and informative.

John Ciardi