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THE EDITORSDONALD H. REIMAN is
editor of Shelley and His Circle at the
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library (the largest
collection in this country of materials relating
to Shelley and his circle). He has taught at the
University of Illinois, Duke University, the
University of Wisconsin, the City University of
New York, Columbia University, and St. John’s
University. He is the author of books and
articles on Shelley and on his period. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
SHELLEY’S POETRY AND PROSE
Edited by Donald H. Reiman, Pforzheimer Library and Sharon B. Powers
This volume contains one of the fullest, and certainly the most accurately edited, collections of Shelley’s poetry and prose available. All the texts have been re-edited from primary sources especially for this edition.
Included in the selection are four early poems from The Esdaile Notebook; Queen Mab, Alastor, "Mont Blanc," and "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"; "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills," Julian and Maddalo, Prometheus Unbound, "The Sensitive-Plant," The Cenci, Peter Bell the Third, "Letter to Maria Gisborne," "The Witch of Atlas," Epipsychidion, Adonais, Hellas, and The Triumph of Life (all complete), as well as such important shorter poems as "Ozymandias," "Ode to Liberty," "Ode to the West Wind," "The Cloud," "To a Sky-Lark," and the late lyrics to Jane Williams. There are also selections from Laon and Cyntha (The Revolt of Islam).
Prose pieces included are A Defence of Poetry, On Life, and On Love.
All the poems and prose pieces have been thoroughly annotated, with unusual diction defined and with all biographical, historical, geographical, and literary allusions identified (many of them for the first time anywhere).
To further assist the student and teacher, fifteen essays are included representing the best of scholarship and criticism on Shelley’s poetry. Among them are several general studies that illuminate the historical, philosophical, symbolic, and mythic approaches to the poet’s work; a number of other essays assist the reader’s entry into specific poems.
The critics represented are Kenneth Neill Cameron, C. E. Pulos, Earl R. Wasserman, Donald H. Reiman, Evan K. Gibson, Charles H. Vivian, M. H. Abrams, D. J. Hughes, Irene H. Chayes, Carlos Baker, Ross Woodman, Carl Woodring, and G. M. Matthews
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