Selections from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Percy Bysshe Shelley , Edited by A. Hamilton Thompson

• ISBN13: 9780521126205
• ISBN10: 0521126207
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Edited by the historian Alexander Hamilton Thompson, this volume offers an introduction to the poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The selection, compiled and introduced by Professor Hamilton, are supplemented with extensive notes shedding light on the circumstances of the poems and elucidating the references, literary and otherwise, which proliferated Shelley's works. First published in 1915, this volumes remains a useful survey of the works of one of England's most celebrated Romantic poets.

Table of Contents

Principal dates in the life of Shelley

Introduction

Selections

'The Cold Earth Slept Below'

The Wandering Poet (from Alastor)

From The Revolt of Islam

'That Time is Dead for Ever'

Ozymandias

The Dell by the Lakes of Como (from Rosalind and Helen)

Evening near Venice (from Julian and Maddalo)

The Past

Lines written among the Euganean Hills

Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples

From Prometheus Unbound

Ode to the West Wind

The Indian Serenade

The Lady of the Garden

The Cloud

To a Skylark

The Golden Age of Greece (from The Ode to Liberty)

Arethusa

Hymn of Pan

'A far Eden of the purple East' (from Epipsychidion)

Adonais: an Elegy on the death of John Keats

The Coming of Christianity (from Hellas)

To Night

Time

Song

Mutability

A Lament

To ____

To ____

Lines

To Jane: the invitation

To Jane: the reconciliation

With a Guitar, to Jane

Archy's Song in Charles the First

A Dirge

Notes

Index to notes

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