Shelley's Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 2

by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Neil Fraistat, Donald H. Reiman

Overview

This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Each selection has been thoroughly reedited, and the order of the poems has been rearranged in light of redating or other reconsiderations. All headnotes are new or updated, and many footnotes have been added, replaced, or revised.

"Criticism" reflects the recent renaissance in Shelley studies, the greatest renaissance since 1870-92. All twenty-three essays are new to the Second Edition; among them are the work of Harold Bloom, Stuart Curran, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Michael Ferber, James Chandler, and Susan J. Wolfson.

A Chronology, an updated Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393977523
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/02/2002
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	816
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Neil Fraistat is Professor of English at the University of Maryland and a founder and General Editor of the Romantic Circles website. He is co-editor of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, of Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print, and of Helen Maria Williams' Letters Written in France. He is recipient of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Scholar Award.


Donald H. Reiman, Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is co-editor of Shelley and His Circle at the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library. He is a director and officer of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, founder of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, a founding director of the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Byron Society of America, and a founder of the Romantic Circles website. He has written, edited, or co-edited some 200 volumes of literary and textual criticism.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the Second Edition	ix
	Preface to the First Edition	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Textual Introduction	xvii
	Abbreviations	xxi
	The Poems
	from The Esdaile Notebook	3
	To the Emperors of Russia and Austria ...	4
	Sonnet: To a balloon, laden with Knowledge	5
	Zeinab and Kathema	6
	The Retrospect	11
	Queen Mab	15
	Alastor	71
	Stanzas.--April, 1814	91
	Mutability ("We are as clouds")	91
	To Wordsworth	92
	Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	92
	Mont Blanc	96
	from Laon and Cythna (later The Revolt of Islam)
	Dedication	101
	Canto IX, stanzas xx-xxviii	105
	To Constantia	107
	Ozymandias	109
	Lines written among the Euganean Hills	110
	Julian and Maddalo	119
	Stanzas written in Dejection--December 1818, Near Naples	135
	The Two Spirits--An Allegory	137
	The Cenci	138
	Prometheus Unbound	202
	The Sensitive-Plant	286
	Ode to Heaven	296
	Ode to the West Wind	298
	The Cloud	301
	To a Sky-Lark	304
	Ode to Liberty	307
	The Mask of Anarchy	315
	[Sonnet:] England in 1819	326
	Sonnet: To the Republic of Benevento	327
	Sonnet ("Lift not the painted veil")	327
	Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave!")	328
	Letter to Maria Gisborne	328
	Peter Bell the Third	337
	The Witch of Atlas	365
	Song of Apollo	388
	Song of Pan	389
	Epipsychidion	390
	Adonais	407
	Hellas	427
	Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon	465
	The Indian Girl's Song	466
	Song ("Rarely, rarely comest thou")	467
	The Flower That Smiles Today	468
	Memory	469
	To--("Music, when soft voices die")	469
	When Passion's Trance Is Overpast	470
	To Jane. The Invitation	470
	To Jane. The Recollection	472
	One Word Is Too Often Profaned	474
	The Serpent Is Shut Out from Paradise	475
	With a Guitar. To Jane.	477
	To Jane ("The keen stars were twinkling")	479
	Lines written in the Bay of Lerici	480
	The Triumph of Life	481
	The Prose
	On Love	503
	On Life	505
	A Defence of Poetry	509
	Criticism
	Shelley's Reputation Before 1960: A Sketch	539
	Foundations
	A Volcano's Voice in Shelley	550
	Urbanity and Apocalypse	568
	The Poetry of Skepticism	570
	Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics	580
	Shelley as Agrarian Reactionary	589
	General Studies
	Shelley and the End(s) of Ideology	600
	The Transgressive Double Standard: Shelleyan Utopianism and Feminist Social History	607
	Shelley's Lyric Art	616
	Percy Bysshe Shelley and Revolutionary Climatology	627
	Audiences and the Later Works	636
	Shelley Left and Right: The Rhetorics of the Early Textual Editions	645
	Studies of Individual Works
	Alastor	654
	"Frail Spells": Shelley and the Ironies of Exile	663
	[Mont Blanc]	669
	Shelley's Doubles: An Approach to Julian and Maddalo	675
	Transference Perverted: The Cenci as Shelley's Great Expose	684
	The Unascended Heaven: Negatives in Prometheus Unbound	694
	History's Lyre: The "West Wind" and the Poet's Work	711
	Poetic Form and Political Reform: The Mask of Anarchy and "England in 1819"	722
	Dispersoning Emily: Drafting as Plot in Epipsychidion	735
	[Adonais: Defending the Imagination]	753
	[Spectators Turned Actors: "The Triumph of Life"]	760
	Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Chronology	769
	Selected Bibliography	775
	Index of Titles and First Lines	785

Editorial Reviews

This second edition (first published in 1977) includes substantial revisions to the accompanying critical works and annotations, as well as to the text of his works themselves. Poems include all of Shelley's greatest and most frequently taught works including , , and all the book-length poems he wrote in Italy but one, as well as three important prose works. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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