The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Neil Fraistat (Editor), Nora Crook (Editor)

Overview

A landmark event in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of all poems and translations that Shelley published or circulated among friends, as well as diplomatic texts of his significant incomplete poetic drafts and fragments. Edited upon historical principles by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, the multi-volume edition will offer more poems and fragments than any previous collective edition, arranged in the order of their first circulation. These texts are followed by the most extensive collations hitherto available and detailed commentaries that describe their contextual origins and subsequent reception. Rejected passages of released poems appear as supplements to those poems, while other poetic drafts that Shelley rejected or left incomplete at his death will be grouped according to either their publication histories or the notebooks in which they survive.

Volume One includes Shelley's first four works containing poetry (all prepared for publication before his expulsion from Oxford), as well as "The Devil's Walk" (circulated in August 1812), a series of short poems that he sent to friends between 1809 and 18l0, including a bawdy satire on his parents and "Oh wretched mortal, " a poem never before published. An appendix discusses poems lost or erroneously attributed to the young Shelley.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421437835
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	05/04/2021
Pages:	1040
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 2.36(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nora Croo k is professor emerita of English literature at Anglia Ruskin University. Neil Fraistat is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and the president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Editorial Overview	xix
	Abbreviations	xli
	Texts
	Original Poetry	3
	Letter [1] ("Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink")	7
	Letter [2] (To Miss _ From Miss _)	9
	Song. ("Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling")	11
	Song. ("Come _! sweet is the hour")	13
	Song. Despair	14
	Song. Sorrow	15
	Song. Hope	16
	Song. Translated from the Italian	17
	Song. Translated from the German	18
	The Irishman's Song	18
	Song. ("Fierce roars the midnight storm")	19
	Song. To _ ("Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain")	20
	Song. To _ ("Stern, stern is the voice of fate's fearfull command")	21
	Saint Edmond's Eve	22
	Revenge	28
	Ghasta; or, The Avenging Demon!!!	30
	Fragment, or The Triumph of Conscience	37
	The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger	39
	Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems Found Amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786	89
	Advertisement	92
	"Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurl'd"	93
	Fragment. Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corde	95
	Despair	99
	Fragment. ("Yes! all is past--swift time has fled away")	100
	The Spectral Horseman	101
	Melody to a Scene of Former Times	102
	Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance	105
	"'T was dead of the night, when I sat in my dwelling"	109
	"Ghosts of the dead! have I not heard your yelling"	110
	Ballad. ("The death-bell beats!_")	111
	Song. ("How swiftly through heaven's wide expanse")	114
	Song. ("How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner")	115
	Song. ("Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary")	116
	The Devil's Walk	119
	The Devil's Walk, a Ballad	123
	Supplement: Letter Version of The Devil's Walk	128
	Ten Early Poems (1809-1814)	131
	"A Cat in distress"	135
	"How swiftly through Heaven's wide expanse"	136
	"Oh wretched mortal, hard thy fate!"	138
	To Mary who died in this opinion	138
	"Why is it said thou canst but live"	139
	"As you will see I wrote to you" [1st letter to E. F. Graham]	140
	"Dear dear dear dear dear dear Graeme!" [2nd letter to E. F. Graham]	142
	"Sweet star! which gleaming oer the darksome scene"	144
	"Bear witness Erin! when thine injured isle"	145
	"Thy dewy looks sink in my breast"	145
	Commentaries
	Original Poetry	149
	The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger	189
	Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson	235
	Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian	261
	The Devil's Walk	281
	Ten Early Poems (1809-1814)	295
	Historical Collations
	Introduction	333
	Original Poetry	335
	The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger	355
	Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson	375
	Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian	387
	The Devil's Walk	403
	Ten Early Poems (1809-1814)	411
	Appendixes
	Introduction	433
A.	Latin School Exercises	435
	Epitaphium	435
	In Horologium	437
B.	Prose Treated as Poems	438
	"The Ocean rolls between us"	438
	"Oh Ireland!"	441
C.	Lost Works	442
	Satirical Poem on "L'infame"	443
	Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things	444
	On a Fete at Carlton House	448
	Essay on War	451
	God Save the King	452
D.	Dubia	453
	Poems in the Oxford University and City Herald	453
	Ode, to the Breath of Summer	455
	The Grape. From the Greek Anthologia	455
	Epigram, from the Greek Anthologia. ("We that were wont")	456
	Translation of an Epigram of Vincent Bourne's	457
	On Old Age, from the Greek Anthology	458
	Venus and the Muses, from the Same	458
	Unattributed Epigraphs to St. Irvyne	458
	Sadak the Wanderer. A Fragment	460
E.	Misattributions	469
	Epigraph: "If Satan had never fallen"	469
	Lines, Addressed to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, on His Being Appointed Regent	469
	The Modern Minerva; or, The Bat's Seminary for Young Ladies. A Satire on Female Education	478
	Anecdotes of Father Murdo	480
	To the Queen of My Heart	482
	Index of Titles	487
	Index of First Lines	491

Editorial Reviews

What makes this volume so exceptional (like its predecessors) is not only the state-of-the-art editing, but also the knowledgeable commentaries that give information on the poems' composition, possible sources and influences, publication, and most welcome, their reception history. . . . This gigantic editorial project cannot be praised highly enough.

Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik

This latest installment of The Complete Poetry is nothing less than a landmark in Shelley studies: comprehensive and reliable, necessary and illuminating.

Keats-Shelley Journal

CPPBS 7 is set to become a model for editing modern poetry manuscripts. It strikes a difficult balance between philological rigor and scholarly comprehensiveness on the one hand and readability and usability at different levels of expertise on the other. Textual critics and students of Shelley's poetry will find it equally indispensable, but it will also serve as an important reference work for Mary Shelley scholars.

European Romantic Review - Valentina Varinelli

This outstanding installment of an epoch-making edition of Shelley's verse will transform the opportunities afforded to emerging Shelley scholars.

Review of English Studies - Anthony Howe

Rigorously, enthusiastically, and innovatively edited, this volume has brought excitement and zest to my Shelley-reading life.

Australian Book Review

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.

Times Literary Supplement

With volume seven raising the bar once again, this series is the gold standard for Shelley scholarship. Its expert and illuminating readings are peerless.

The Coleridge Bulletin - Madeleine Callaghan

A more comprehensive collation of relevant materials, or a more sensitive, sensible, and reader-friendly presentation of evidence, is inconceivable.

The Wordsworth Circle

A scholarly delight.
—Romanticism on the Net

Once it is completed, this will be the definitive critical edition of the complete poetry of P.B. Shelley that the scholarly community has been awaiting for such a long time. We can already say: it will have been worth the wait.
—Christoph Bode, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA)

An indispensable reference work for all who study Shelley . . . Auspiciously inaugurates Shelley studies for a new millennium.
—Morton D. Paley, Studies in Romanticism

A more comprehensive collation of relevant materials, or a more sensitive, sensible, and reader-friendly presentation of evidence, is inconceivable. All Shelleyans owe Reiman and Fraistat a debt of gratitude.
—Zachary Leader, The Wordsworth Circle

Will almost certainly be the standard in Shelley scholarship . . . It is more than a reader hopes for in editorial scholarship.
—Susan Morgan, Studies in English Literature

A monumental edition—the Shelley edition for our time.
—Steven E. Jones, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

From the Publisher

A monumental edition—the Shelley edition for our time.

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America - Steven E. Jones

This latest installment of The Complete Poetry is nothing less than a landmark in Shelley studies: comprehensive and reliable, necessary and illuminating.

Keats-Shelley Journal - Susan Wolfson

A scholarly delight.

Romanticism on the Net

What makes this volume so exceptional (like its predecessors) is not only the state-of-the-art editing, but also the knowledgeable commentaries that give information on the poems' composition, possible sources and influences, publication, and most welcome, their reception history. These latter passages give exceptional guidance and allow scholar and amateur alike to make themselves familiar with the critical debate. . . This gigantic editorial project cannot be praised highly enough. It meets the severest standards of modern editing. . . The whole scholarly community is deeply indebted to everyone involved in this collaborative enterprise.

Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik - Christoph Bode

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.

Times Literary Supplement - Peter McDonald

An indispensable reference work for all who study Shelley . . . Auspiciously inaugurates Shelley studies for a new millennium.

Studies in Romanticism

Will almost certainly be the standard in Shelley scholarship . . . It is more than a reader hopes for in editorial scholarship.

Studies in English Literature - Susan Morgan

A more comprehensive collation of relevant materials, or a more sensitive, sensible, and reader-friendly presentation of evidence, is inconceivable. All Shelleyans owe Reiman and Fraistat a debt of gratitude.

The Wordsworth Circle - Zachary Leader

An indispensable reference work for all who study Shelley . . . Auspiciously inaugurates Shelley studies for a new millennium.

Studies in Romanticism - Morton D. Paley

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

A monumental edition—the Shelley edition for our time.

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

The years between 1814 and 1818 were amongst the most personally turbulent and poetically productive of Shelley's brief life; it is thus tremendously exciting to have access to a resource that provides such an intimate look into the poet's world and his creative process.

The Year's Work in English Studies

Will almost certainly be the standard in Shelley scholarship . . . It is more than a reader hopes for in editorial scholarship.

Studies in English Literature