"Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I" from Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Romantic poet (1792-1822).

"Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume II" from Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Romantic poet (1792-1822).

"Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III" from Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Romantic poet (1792-1822).

"Hellas" from Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Romantic poet (1792-1822).

"Prometheus Unbound" from Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Romantic poet (1792-1822).

"Zastrozzi " from Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Romantic poet (1792-1822).

Adonais is the first writing by Shelley which has been included in the Clarendon Press Series. It is a poem of convenient length for such a purpose, being neither short nor decidedly long; and-leaving out of count some of the short poems-is the one by this author which approaches nearest to being 'popular.' It is elevated in sentiment, classical in form, -in substance, biographical in relation to Keats, and in some minor degree autobiographical for Shelley himself. On these grounds it claimed a reasonable preference over all his other poems, for the present method of treatment; although some...

With like many great works of art, 'Frankenstein' was initially misunderstood. The first reviews were decidedly mixed. An anonymous review in The Literary Panorama and National Register published June 1 1818 dismissed Shelley's work as 'a feeble imitation of one that was very popular in its day.' Other periodicals were kinder. Writing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine on 20 March 1818, Walter Scott praised the unusual Gothic Romance as a "tale, though wild in incident, is written in plain and forcible English, without exhibiting that mixture of hyperbolical Germanisms with which tales of...