The Poems of Shelley: Volume Two: 1817 - 1819

ISBN-13: 9780582030824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 904 str.

Kelvin Everest

Opis

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the second volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents 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. This volume makes extensive use of the Shelley manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and draws on the substantial recent research which has appeared on Shelley's text and contexts, and on members of his circle such as Mary Shelley, Byron, Godwin and others. It offers significant new datings and contextual exposition of major works including Prometheus Unbound, Laon and Cythna, 'Julian and Maddalo', The Cenci, and Shelley's translations from the Greek, notably his highly original translation of Euripides' The Cyclops. There are also comprehensive treatments of some of Shelley's best known shorter poems, such as 'Lines written among the Euganean Hills' and 'Ozymandias'. The annotation demonstrates the extraordinary range and richness of Shelley's literary intelligence, and situates his work in the revolutionary politics and social upheavals of the early nineteenth century. The text and annotation are supported by an extensive bibliography, a chronology, indexes, and appendices which include a detailed examination of the history of the Cenci story. The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.

Recenzje

"The whole is a model of objective and scrupulous scholarship...This first reliably complete edition promises to be the standard scholarly text for many years to come." The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Preface to Volume Two Chronological Table of Shelley's Life and Publications THE POEMS 142 Trail clouds arrayed in sunlight lose the glory' edited by Jack Donovan 143 La on and Cythna edited by Jack Donovan 143 Appendix Fragments connected with Laon and Cythna edited by Jack Donovan 144 Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue 145 Ozymandias146 Athanase 147 To Constantia (The red Rose that drinks the fountain dew') 148 'arise sweet Mary rise' 149 'My head is heavy, my limbs are weary' 150 'Serene in his unconquerable might' 151 Address to the Human Mind 152 'Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless mind' 153 'My spirit like a charmed bark doth swim' 154 'To thirst and find no fill' 155 To Constantia ('Thy voice, slow rising like a Spirit, lingers') 156-161 Translations of the Homeric Hymns 156 To Castor and Pollux 157 To the Moon 158 To the Sun 159 To the Earth, Mother of All 160 To Minerva 161 Hymn to Venus 162 Lament for Bion 163 To the Nile 164 'Now Heaven neglected is by Men' 165 'Listen, listen, Mary mine -' 166 Mazenghi 167 From Virgil's Tenth Eclogue 168 From Virgil's Fourth Geòrgie 169 'Heigh ho, wisdom and folly' 170 Scene for Tasso 171 'Silence; oh well are Death and sleep and thou' 172 The Cyclops 173 Sonnet ('Lift not the painted veil which those who live') 174 'Alas, this is not what I thought life was' 175 'One sung of thee who left the tale untold' 176 'And the fierce beasts of the world's wildernesses' 177 'O Mary dear, that you were here' 178 'I am drunk with the honey-wine' 179 'Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow' 180 'And where is truth? On tombs? for such to thee' 181 'Behold, sweet Sister mine, once more descend' 182 The Two Spirits. An Allegory 183 Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October, 1818 184 'And who feels discord now or sorrow?' 185 'O mighty mind, in whose deep stream this age' 186 Song for Tasso 187 Stanzas written in dejection - December 1818, near Naples 188 'There was a little lawny islet' 189 'In the cave which wild weeds cover' 190 'Rome has fallen, ye see it lying' 191 'Follow to the deep wood, sweetest' 192 'How sweet it is to sit and read the tales' 193 'Wake the serpent not - lest he' 194 'Hold - divine image' 195 Prometheus Unbound 195 Appendix Fragments connected with Prometheus Unbound 196 'the weeping willows' 197 'The cotton poplar's down' 198 Julian and Maddalo edited by Ralph Pite 199 'How pale and cold thou art in thy despair' 200 Retribution: from Moschus 201 Translation of part of Bion's Lament for Adonis 202 Misery. - A Fragment