The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Volume 3)

"His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude." With these words, the radical journalist and poet Leigh Hunt announced his discovery in 1816 of an extraordinary talent within "a new school of poetry rising of late." The third volume of the acclaimed edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley includes Alastor , one of Shelley’s first major works, and all the poems that Shelley completed, for either private circulation or publication, during the turbulent years from 1814 to March 1818: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty , Mont Blanc , Laon and Cythna , as well as shorter pieces, such as his most famous sonnet, Ozymandias . It was during these years that Shelley, already an accomplished and practiced poet with three volumes of published verse, authored two major volumes, earned international recognition, and became part of the circle that was later called the Younger Romantics. As with previous volumes, extensive discussions of the poems’ composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work. Among the appendixes are Mary W. Shelley’s 1839 notes on the poems for these years, a table of the forty-two revisions made to Laon and Cythna for its reissue as The Revolt of Islam , and Shelley’s errata list for the same. It is in the works included in this volume that the recognizable and characteristic voice of Shelley emerges―unmistakable, consistent, and vital. 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. Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works "should form one volume"; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: Queen Mab and The Esdaile Notebook. Privately issued in 1813, Queen Mab was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled A Philosophical Poem: With Notes, it became his most influential -- and pirated -- poem during much of the nineteenth century, a favorite among reformers and radicals. The Esdaile Notebook, a cycle of fifty-eight early poems, exhibits an astonishing range of verse forms. Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft. As in the acclaimed first volume, these works have been critically edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. The poems are presented as Shelley intended, with textual variants included in footnotes. Following the poems are extensive discussions of the circumstances of their composition and the influences they reflect; their publication or circulation by other means; their reception at the time of publication and in the decades since; their re-publication, both authorized and unauthorized; and their place in Shelley's intellectual and aesthetic development Winner of the 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipOutstanding Academic Title, Choice'His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude.” With these words, the radical journalist and poet Leigh Hunt announced his discovery in 1816 of an extraordinary talent within “a new school of poetry rising of late.”The third volume of the acclaimed edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley includes Alastor, one of Shelley's first major works, and all the poems that Shelley completed, for either private circulation or publication, during the turbulent years from 1814 to March 1818: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc, Laon and Cythna, as well as shorter pieces, such as his most famous sonnet, Ozymandias. It was during these years that Shelley, already an accomplished and practiced poet with three volumes of published verse, authored two major volumes, earned international recognition, and became part of the circle that was later called the Younger Romantics. As with previous volumes, extensive discussions of the poems'composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work. Among the appendixes are Mary W. Shelley's 1839 notes on the poems for these years, a table of the forty-two revisions made to Laon and Cythna for its reissue as The Revolt of Islam, and Shelley's errata list for the same. It is in the works included in this volume that the recognizable and characteristic voice of Shelley emerges—unmistakable, consistent, and vital. Original Poetry: By Victor And Cazire -- Letter [1] (here I Sit With My Paper, My Pen And My Ink) -- Letter [2] (to Miss - From Miss -) -- Song. (cold, Cold Is The Blast When December Is Howling) -- Song. (come! Sweet Is The Hour) -- Song. Despair -- Song. Sorrow -- Song. Hope -- Song. Translated From The Italian -- Song. Translated From The German -- The Irishman's Song -- Song. (fierce Roars The Midnight Storm) -- Song. (ah! Sweet Is The Moonbeam That Sleeps On Yon Fountain) -- Song. (stern, Stern Is The Voice Of Fate's Fearfull Command) -- Saint Edmond's Eve -- Revenge -- Ghasta; Or, The Avenging Demon!!! -- Fragment, Or The Triumph Of Conscience -- The Wandering Jew; Or, The Victim Of The Eternal Avenger -- Posthumous Fragments Of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems Found Amongst The Papers Of That Noted Female Who Attempted The Life Of The King In 1786 -- Ambition, Power, And Avarice, Now Have Hurl'd -- Fragment. Supposed To Be An Epithalamium Of Francis Ravaillac And Charlotte Corde -- Despair -- Fragment. (yes! All Is Past--swift Time Has Fled Away) -- The Spectral Horseman -- Melody To A Scene Of Former Times -- Poems From St. Irvyne; Or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance -- 't Was Dead Of The Night, When I Sat In My Dwelling -- Ghosts Of The Dead! Have I Not Heard Your Yelling -- Ballad. (the Death-bell Beats!--) -- Song. (how Swiftly Through Heaven's Wide Expanse) -- Song. (how Stern Are The Woes Of The Desolate Mourner) -- Song. (ah! Faint Are Her Limbs, And Her Footstep Is Weary) -- The Devil's Walk. Edited By Donald H. Reiman And Neil Fraistat. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Also Issued Online. "His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled __Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude."__ With these words, the radical journalist and poet Leigh Hunt announced his discovery in 1816 of an extraordinary talent within "a new school of poetry rising of late." As with previous volumes, extensive discussions of the poems’ composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work. Among the appendixes are Mary W. Shelley’s 1839 notes on the poems for these years, a table of the forty-two revisions made to __Laon and Cythna__ for its reissue as __The Revolt of Islam__, and Shelley’s errata list for the same.