Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Nora Crook is emerita professor of English literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Neil Fraistat is emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland, and former president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Stephen C. Behrendt is the George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is the coeditor of Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception and Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Stuart Curran was the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania (emeritus) and the past editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal.
The latest volume of the acclaimed and magisterial Hopkins Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry, covering the years 1818 to early 1820, the first phase of Shelley's Italian period.
"You talk Utopia," says the worldly Count Maddalo, reproaching the idealistic Julian in Julian and Maddalo. Inspired by conversations conducted on horseback near Venice between the two notorious exiled poets, Shelley and Byron, this poem was among the first of the masterpieces that Shelley wrote after moving with his family in March 1818 from England to post-Napoleonic Italy.Â
The fourth volume of the Hopkins Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley covers the years 1818–19 and part of 1820, when Britain was convulsed by popular agitation for the reform of Parliament and stifled by repressive laws against free speech. Among its other contents are The Cenci, an indictment of tyranny, domestic and political, probably the most actable of Romantic dramas; The Mask of Anarchy, the "greatest poem of political protest ever written in English" (too inflammatory to be published at the time); Peter Bell the Third, a brilliant satire on Wordsworth; the fiery sonnet "England in 1819"; an eclogue for women's voices (Rosalind and Helen); playful, sophisticated songs ("Love's Philosophy") and sad verses ("Stanzas, Written in dejection"). Shelley's publications received slashing reviews from politically motivated critics, who attacked his character and principles but acknowledged his poetic gifts. He broadened his scope and composed the most politically engaged poems of his maturity. To quote a Victorian editor, he "ceased to be a subject of Time, and became a citizen of Eternity."
As in previous volumes, meticulously edited texts are accompanied by discussions of the poems' composition, the influences they reflect, their publication, reception, and critical history, and detailed records of textual variants. Appendixes range from Mary Shelley's editorial notes to jottings by Shelley drawn from a hitherto unrecognized source for The Cenci. Readers will find in volume four original research, fresh readings, new contexts, and discoveries—hallmarks of this acclaimed edition.
Volumes 5, 6, and 8 are in preparation.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editorial Overview (by the volume and associate editors)
Abbreviations
TEXTS
Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems (edited by Stuart Curran), by Stuart Curran
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Rosalind and Helen
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, October, 1818
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1819 Version)
Sonnet. Ozymandias
Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
Preface
Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation
The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts (edited by Stuart Curran), by Stuart Curran
Dedication
Preface
The Cenci
Supplement: "Note on Shakespeare" (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
The Mask of Anarchy Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester (edited by Stuart Curran), by Stuart Curran
Supplements (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
1. "Horses, oxen, have a home"
2. "From the cities where from caves"
Peter Bell the Third (edited by Stephen Behrendt), by Stephen Behrendt
Dedication
Prologue
Peter Bell the Third
Supplements (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
1. "A daughter mother & a grandmother"
2. "Proteus Wordsworth who shall bind thee"
3. "A Poet of the finest water"
4. "Sucking hydras hashed in sulphur"
5. "There was a gorgeous marriage feast"
6. "At the creation of the Earth"
Two Political Poems of Late 1819 (edited by Stephen Behrendt), by Stephen Behrendt
To S. and C.
Supplements (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
1. "Wolves & death-birds have been shot"
2. "Come, da una avita quercia"
England in 1819
Lyrics Given to Sophia Stacey, Winter 1819–Spring 1820 (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
"Thou art fair, and few are fairer"
Love's Philosophy ("The fountains mingle with the river")
"The Fountains mingle with the River"
An Anacreontic ("The Fountains Mingle with the River")
Time long past
Goodnight
On a dead Violet To ——
Athanase A Fragment (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
Supplements: Athanase Draft
1. "Prince Athanase as with long toil and travel"
2. "Prince Athanase had one beloved friend"
3. "'Twas at that season when the Earth upsprings"
Lyrics for "Julian and Maddalo, and other Poems" and Poem to Accompany The Cenci (edited by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
To —— [Constantia] (notebook version of November—1815)
Lyrics for "Julian and Maddalo, and other Poems"
Ollier Booklet
November—1815
Supplement: "That time is gone for ever—child—"
Misery.—a fragment
Supplement: Draft fragment stanzas of Misery.—a fragment
Stanzas Written in Dejection—December 1818, near Naples
To a faded violet
Woodberry MS
To —— [the Lord Chancellor]
Supplements:
1. "By thy most impious Hell and all its terror"
2. "I had two babes—a sister & a brother"
Poem to Accompany The Cenci
Woodberry MS
To —— ("Corpses are cold in the tomb")
COMMENTARIES
Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; With Other Poems (by Stuart Curran), by Stuart Curran
Rosalind and Helen
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, October, 1818
Julian and Maddalo. A Conversation (by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
The Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts (by Stuart Curran) (Supplement by Nora Crook), by Stuart Curran and Nora Crook
Peter Bell the Third (by Stephen Behrendt) (Supplements by Nora Crook), by Stephen Behrendt and Nora Crook
Two Political Poems of Late 1819 (by Stephen Behrendt) (Supplements by Nora Crook), by Stephen Behrendt and Nora Crook
To S. and C.
England in 1819
Lyrics given to Sophia Stacey, Winter 1819–Spring 1820 (by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
"Thou art fair, and few are fairer"
"The Fountains mingle with the River" (three versions)
Time Long Past
Goodnight
On a dead Violet To ——
Athanase A Fragment (and Supplements) (by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
Lyrics for "Julian and Maddalo, and other Poems" and Poem to Accompany The Cenci (by Nora Crook), by Nora Crook
Lyrics for "Julian and Maddalo, and other Poems"
To —— [Constantia] (notebook version of November—1815)
Ollier Booklet
November—1815 (and Supplement)
Misery.—a fragment (and Supplement)
Stanzas Written in Dejection— December 1818, near Naples
Woodberry MS
To —— [the Lord Chancellor] (and Supplements)
Poem to Accompany The Cenci
Woodberry MS
To —— ("Corpses are cold in the tomb")
HISTORICAL COLLATIONS
Rosalind and Helen
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
Julian and Maddalo
The Cenci
The Mask of Anarchy
Peter Bell the Third
Two Political Poems of Late 1819
Lyrics Given to Sophia Stacey, Winter 1819–Spring 1820
Athanase
Lyrics for "Julian and Maddalo, and other Poems" and Poem to Accompany The Cenci
APPENDIXES
A. Mary W. Shelley's Notes from Her 1840 Edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
I. Note on The Cenci
II. Note on the Poems of 1818
III. Note on the Poems of 1819
B. The Cenci: Ancillary Material
I. Shelley's Reading Notes for The Cenci
II. Mary W. Shelley's 1819 Translation, "Relation of the Death of the Family of the Cenci"
III. Shelley's Corrections to the Taaffe Copy of The Cenci
IV. The Cenci Errata List in MWS's hand
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
Editor Biographies
Notes
Index
—Times Literary Supplement
—Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, praise for Volume 1
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Nora Crook is emerita professor of English literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Neil Fraistat is emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland, and former president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Stephen C. Behrendt is the George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is the coeditor of Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception and Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Stuart Curran was the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania (emeritus) and the past editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal.