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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: COLLECTED POEMS (THE FOLIO POETS)

by Neville Rogers; Richard Holmes

Illustrated by Simon Brett

Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. 2008

Slightly better than very good condition. The Folio Poets series. Edited by Neville Rogers, Introduction by Richard Holmes. Red leather spine with gilt title. Pictorial cloth boards. The text of this edition follows that of the 1969 edition by Oxford University Press published under the title Selected Poetry. B/w illustrations. Top edge red. xix and 552 pages including index.

Very minor (hardly noticeable) discolouration to text block else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

Stock no. 1830753

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • I PHILOSOPHICAL, NARRATIVE AND DRAMATIC POEMS
  • Queen Mab (Selections)
  • Alastor or The Spirit of Solitude
  • Julian and Maddalo
  • Prometheus Unbound
  • The Cenci
  • The Mask of Anarchy
  • The Witch of Atlas
  • Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant
  • Epipsychidion
  • Adonais
  • Hellas
  • The Triumph of Life
  • II LYRICAL, PERSONAL AND OCCASIONAL POEMS
  • To Harriet (Shelley) ('Whose is the love that, gleaming through the World')
  • To Harriet (Shelley) ('Thy look of love has power to calm')
  • Stanzas - April 1814
  • Mutability ('We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon')
  • Two Translations
  • Sonnet (From the Italian of Dante)
  • Sonnet (From the Italian of Cavalcanti)
  • Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
  • Mont Blanc
  • Lines. November 181(6)
  • To Constantia, Singing
  • Dedication (From the revolt of Islam)
  • To William Shelley
  • Ozymandias
  • On a Faded Violet
  • Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
  • Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
  • Sonnet ('Lift not the painted veil which those who live')
  • A New National Anthem
  • Sonnet: England in 1819
  • Ode to Heaven
  • A Lament ('O World! O Life! O Time!')
  • Ode to the West Wind
  • On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
  • The Sensitive Plant
  • The Cloud
  • To a Skylark
  • Ode to Liberty
  • Letter to Maria Gisborne
  • Two Songs for Play
  • Hymn of Apollo
  • Hymn of Pan
  • The Question
  • Ode to Naples
  • The Waning Moon
  • Translation: The First Canzone of Il Convito (From the Italian of Dante)
  • To Night
  • Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
  • To (Sophia Stacey)
  • Song ('Rarely, rarely, comest thou')
  • Mutability ('The flower that smiles today)
  • The Boat on the Serchio
  • Dirge (From 'Ginevra')
  • Translation: Three Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
  • To Edward Williams
  • Lines ('When the lamp is shattered')
  • With a Guitar, to Jane
  • To Jane
  • A Dirge ('Rough wind, that moanest loud')
  • Lines ('We meet not as then we parted')
  • Translation: Scene from El Magico Prodigioso (From the Spanish of Calderon)
  • Translation: Scene from Faust (From the German of Goethe)
  • Notes
  • Index of Titles and First Lines

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