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The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley v o lDu m e t w o edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat The Johns Hopkins University Press baltimore and london © 2004 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2004 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data will be found at the end of this book. A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn0-8018-7874-8 All of the illustrations in this volume are used with the kind permission of The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and HisCircle, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox andTildenFoundations. Endpapers:Left to right: Cover and spine of The Esdaile Notebookand Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. (1813) Frontispiece:“To Harriet,” the first poem in The Esdaile Notebookand, revised, used as the dedication to Queen Mab For Hélène Dworzan (Reiman) For she was beautiful—her beauty made The bright world dim, and every thing beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade: The Witch ofAtlas For Pamela Wessling Lamp of Earth! where’er thou movest Its dim shapes are clad with brightness And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness . . . Prometheus Unbound This page intentionally left blank Contents of Volume Two List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Editorial Overview xvii Abbreviations xxxvii TEXTS The Esdaile Notebook 3 [Esd#1] To Harriet (“Whose is the love”) 7 [Esd#2] A sabbath Walk 8 [Esd#3] The Crisis 10 [Esd#4] Passion | (to the 11 [Esd#5] To Harriet (“Never, O never, shall yonder Sun”) 13 [Esd#6] Falshood and Vice | a Dialogue 14 [Esd#7] To the Emperors of Russia and Austria | who eyed the battle of Austerlitz from the heights whilst Buonaparte was active in the thickest of the fight 20 [Esd#8] To November 22 [Esd#9] Written on a beautiful day in Spring 23 [Esd#10] On leaving London for Wales. 24 [Esd#11] A winter’s day 27 [Esd#12] To Liberty 29 [Esd#13] On Robert Emmet’s tomb 31 [Esd#14] a Tale of Society as it is | from facts 1811 32 Supplement: Version in Letter to Hitchener, 7January 1812 39 [Esd#15] The solitary 1810 41 [Esd#16] The Monarch’s funeral| An Anticipation | 1810 42 [Esd#17] To the Republicans of North America 45 Supplement: Version in Letter to Hitchener, 14February 1812 48 [Esd#18] Written at Cwm Ellan 1811 49 [Esd#19] To Death 50 Supplement: Version in Hogg Manuscript, ca. 1810 54 [Esd#20] “Dark Spirit of the desart rude” 55 [Esd#21] “The pale, the cold and the moony smile” 57 [Esd#22] “Death-spurning rocks!” 59 [Esd#23] The Tombs 60 [Esd#24] To Harriet (“It is not blasphemy to hope”) 61 vii [Esd#25] Sonnet: To Harriet | on her birth day, August 1, 1812 64 [Esd#26] Sonnet: To a balloon, laden with Knowledge 65 [Esd#27] Sonnet: On launching some bottles filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel. 66 [Esd#28] Sonnet: On waiting for a wind to cross the Bristol Channel from Devonshire to Wales. 66 [Esd#29] To Harriet (“Harriet! thy kiss to my soul is dear”) 67 [Esd#30] Mary to the Sea-Wind 68 [Esd#31] A retrospect of Times of Old 69 [Esd#32] The Voyage | A Fragment | Devonshire—August 1812 73 [Esd#33] A Dialogue—1809 84 Supplement: Version in Hogg Manuscript, ca. 1810 88 [Esd#34] 1810(“How eloquent are eyes!”) 89 Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 18–19June 1811 91 [Esd#35] 1810(“Hopes that bud in youthful breasts”) 91 Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 18–19June 1811 92 [Esd#36] September 23, 1809(“Moonbeam! leave the shadowy dale”) 93 Supplement: To the Moonbeamin Letter to Hogg, 17May 1811 94 [Poems about Mary] Advertisement 95 [Esd#37] To Mary I 96 [Esd#38] To Mary II 97 [Esd#39] To Mary III 98 [Esd#40] To the Lover of Mary 100 [Esd#41] 1810(“Dares the Lama, most fleet”) 101 Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 20April 1811 104 [Esd#42] 1809(“I will kneel at thine altar”) 105 [Esd#43] Fragment of a Poem, | the original idea of which was suggested by the cowardly and infamous bombardment of Copenhagen 106 Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 11January 1811 108 [Esd#44] 1809| On an Icicle that clung to the grass of a grave 109 Supplement: Version in Letter to Hogg, 6January 1811 110 [Esd#45] 1808(“Cold are the Blasts”) 111 Supplement: Version in Hogg Manuscript, Late October or November 1810 114 [Esd#46] 1809| Henry and Louisa | a Poem in two parts The Parting | Part the First. | Scene—England 116 The Meeting | Part Second 124 [Esd#47] A Translation of | The Marsellois Hymn 131 Supplement: Stanza Included in Letter to Graham, ca. 19June 1811 134 [Esd#48] Written in very early youth 134 [Esd#49] Zeinab and Kathema 135 [Esd#50] The Retrospect. | Cwm Elan 1812 143 [Esd#51] The wandering Jew’s soliloquy 149 [Esd#52] To Ianthe. OctSeptr1813 150 viii Contents ofVolume Two [Esd#53] Evening—to Harriet. Sep. 1813 151 [Esd#54] To Harriett (“Thy look of love”) 151 [Esd#55] “Full many a mind” 153 [Esd#56] May 1813: To Harriet ......... 153 [Esd#57] “Late was the night” 155 14 [Esd#58] Febry28th1806— To St Irvyne 157 Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. 159 To Harriett * * * * * [dedicatory poem] 164 Canto I 165 Canto II 173 Canto III 181 Canto IV 189 Canto V 197 Canto VI 205 Canto VII 213 Canto VIII 222 Canto IX 230 Notes. [Shelley’s Notes to Queen Mab] 239 Note 1(I.242–43) 239 Note 2(I.252–53) 239 Note 3(IV.178–79) 240 Note 4(V.1–2) 246 Note 5(V.4–6) 246 Note 6(V.58) 247 Note 7(V.93–94) 248 Note 8(V.112–13) 251 Note 9(V.189) 251 Note 10(VI.45–46) 255 Note 11(VI.171–73) 257 Note 12(VI.198) 258 Note 13(VII.13) 263 Note 14(VII.67) 278 Note 15(VII.135–36) 284 Note 16(VIII.203–7) 294 Note 17(VIII.211–12) 295 COMMENTARIES The Esdaile Notebook 317 Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem: with Notes. 491 Shelley’s Notes to Queen Mab 595 Contents ofVolume Two ix

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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
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