The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7874-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 920 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 1388 g

Winners of an Honorable Mention from the Modern Language Association's Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition

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 Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Reiman, Donald H

Fraistat, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editorial Overview
Abbreviations
Texts
The Esdaile Notebook
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Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes.
Notes. [Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab]
Commentaries
The Esdaile Notebook
Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes.
Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab
Historical Collations
Introduction
The Esdaile Notebook
Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab
Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes.
Shelley's Notes to Queen Mab
Appendixes
Introduction
A. Poetic Forms in The Esdaile Notebook
B. Mary W. Shelley's "Note on Queen Mab"
I. From the 1839 Edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,Volume I.
II. From the 1840 Revised Edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines

Über Autor(innen)

Fraistat, Neil
Neil Fraistat is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and the president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

Reiman, Donald H
Donald H. Reiman is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Donald H. Reiman is an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Neil Fraistat is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland.