Selected Poems and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley - ISBN: 9780241253069
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Shelley’s best poems and prose: visionary, political, and deeply personal.

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    944 pages

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    30 January 2017

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Summary

A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems ‘Prometheus Unbound’ and ‘Adonais’, an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include ‘To a Skylark’, ‘Mont Blanc’ and ‘Ode to the West Wind’. This excellent new edition collects his…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241253069
ISBN-10:0241253063
Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jack Donovan, Cian Duffy
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:944
Release Date:30 January 2017
Weight:682g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 54mm
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Critics Review

This is such an important and definitive edition. It will suit both the scholar and the general reader … One can only marvel at the amount of editorial work that has gone into this volume – Nick Lezard * Guardian *

About The Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author)

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 and published his first volume of poetry in 1809. He was expelled from Oxford University for distributing a pamphlet entitled ‘The Necessity of Atheism’. Four months later, he eloped with and married Harriet Westbrook but later left her for Mary Wollstonecraft, future author of Frankenstein. Shelley was working on his last major poem, The Triumph of Life, when he drowned in Italy in 1822, aged twenty-nine.

Jack Donovan (External Editor)

Jack Donovan is a Reader in English Literature at the University of York and co-editor of the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Shelley.

Cian Duffy (External Editor)

Cian Duffy is Reader in English at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham. He co-edits the Longman Shelley, and is the author of Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime (2005; 2009).

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