The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Volume 3)

1149 Pages·2012·5.25 MB·English

by  Percy Bysshe Shelley & Donald H. Reiman & Neil Fraistat & Nora Crook & Stuart Curran & Michael O'Neill & Michael J. Neth & David Brookshire

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Complete Poetry of
Percy Bysshe Shelley
v o l uDm e t h r e e
general editors
Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat, Nora Crook
volume edi tor s
Neil Fraistat and Nora Crook
associate e ditors
Stuart Curran
Michael J. Neth
Michael O’Neill
assistant editor
David Brookshire
The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Endpapers: Left top: Two pages of Alastor, from Alastor; or, The Spirit
of Solitude: and Other Poems (1816). Left bottom: Beginning of
“Scene—Pont Pellisier in the vale of Servox” from the Scrope Davies
Notebook. Right: A page spread from Laon and Cythna (1817).
The fi rst and third are printed by kind permission of the Bodleian
Library, Oxford University, and the second by kind permission of
Barclays Group Archive, Manchester, courtesy of the British Library.
Frontispieces: Recto and verso of a recently discovered leaf
of a draft for Laon and Cythna, Canto III.vi.46–vii.63
(CMD 6231, Uncatalogued Harcourt Additional Papers box 11/1 ),
by kind permission of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
In Memory of
Tatsuo Tokoo
“Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance”
Prometheus Unbound
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Contents of Volume Three
List of Illustrations xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Editorial Overview (by Neil Fraistat and Nora Crook) xxi
Abbreviations xxxi
TEXTS
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems 3
Preface 5
[#1] Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude (edited by Neil Fraistat) 7
Alastor Volume Poems (edited by Stuart Curran) 31
[#2] “O! there are spirits of the air” 33
[#3] Stanzas.—April, 1814 34
[#4] Mutability 35
[#5] “The pale, the cold, and the moony smile” 36
[#6] A Summer- Evening Church-Y ard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire 37
[#7] To Wordsworth 38
[#8] Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte 39
[#9] Superstition 40
[#10] Sonnet. From the Italian of Dante. Dante Alighieri
to Guido Cavalcanti 41
[#11] Translated from the Greek of Moschus 41
[#12] The Dæmon of the World. A Fragment 43
Supplement: Dæmon Draft: Revision of Queen Mab V.1– 15 53
Supplement: Dæmon Draft: Revision of Queen Mab VIII–I X 55
The Scrope Davies Notebook (edited by Michael O’Neill) 69
“Upon the wandering winds” 71
To Laughter— 71
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 72
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (1817) 73
Scene—Pont Pellisier in the vale of Servox (1816 version
of Mont Blanc) 78
Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni (1817) 79
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