The years since 1977—when the First Edition appeared—have witnessed a renaissance in Shelley studies greater than any since 1870-92. All 23 critical selections are new, and include analysis of Shelley's manuscripts and other textual sources for his writing as well as interpretations.
A Chronology, rigorously updated Selected Bibliography, and Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.
About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
]]>The years since 1977—when the First Edition appeared—have witnessed a renaissance in Shelley studies greater than any since 1870-92. All 23 critical selections are new, and include analysis of Shelley's manuscripts and other textual sources for his writing as well as interpretations.
A Chronology, rigorously updated Selected Bibliography, and Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.
About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.
]]>Volume One includes Shelley's first four works containing poetry (all prepared for publication before his expulsion from Oxford), as well as "The Devil's Walk" (circulated in August 1812), and a series of short poems that he sent to friends between 1809 and 1814, including a bawdy satire on his parents and "Oh wretched mortal," a poem never before published. An appendix discusses poems lost or erroneously attributed to the young Shelley.
"These early poems are important not only biographically but also aesthetically, for they provide detailed evidence of how Shelley went about learning his craft as a poet, and the differences between their tone and that of his mature short poetry index a radical change in his self-image... The poems in Volume I, then, demonstrate Shelley's capacity to write verse in a range of stylistic registers. This early verse, even in its most abandoned forays into Sensibility, the Gothic, political satire, and vulgarity -- perhaps especially in these most apparently idiosyncratic gestures -- provides telling access to its own cultural moment, as well as to Shelley's art and thought in general." -- from the Editorial Overview
]]>The volumes open with a retrospective centered on the young Shelley, featuring unpublished letters from 1809-1810, a memorandum book he kept at Eton, his libelous verse-letter about his parents, and other manuscripts predating his Italian exile. This backward glance also includes the only known exchange between Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay, Godwin's first letter to Malthus, and a partial draft of Mary Shelley's Proserpine, emended by her husband. The chronology of the Italian period begins in July 1820 with the press copy of Byron's verse drama Marino Faliero and continues through December, a period of political ferment when the letters of Leigh Hunt, the Shelleys, Byron, and Countess Teresa Guiccoli reflect preoccupation with Queen Caroline's "trial" for adultery in Britain and brewing revolutions in Italy. Other highlights are two important eyewitness accounts: a young British officer's reminiscences of Shelley in 1814 and Henry Reveley's testimony about the Shelley Circle. Four substantial essays along with detailed commentaries provide context for the 100 manuscripts.
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William Blake
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
G. G. Lord Byron
John Keats
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
W. B. Yeats
Appendix:
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
William Blake Biography
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning Biography
G. G. Lord Byron Biography
John Keats Biography
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography
William Shakespeare Biography
Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography
Alfred Lord Tennyson Biography
W. B. Yeats Biography