The Poems of Shelley: Volume Two: 1817 - 1819: 2 - Brossura

Everest, Kelvin; Matthews, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 058203082X ISBN 13: 9780582030824

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2000

Riassunto

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the second volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse.

This volume makes extensive use of the Shelley manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and draws on the substantial recent research which has appeared on Shelley's text and contexts, and on members of his circle such as Mary Shelley, Byron, Godwin and others. It offers significant new datings and contextual exposition of major works including Prometheus Unbound, Laon and Cythna, 'Julian and Maddalo', The Cenci, and Shelley's translations from the Greek, notably his highly original translation of Euripides' The Cyclops. There are also comprehensive treatments of some of Shelley's best known shorter poems, such as 'Lines written among the Euganean Hills' and 'Ozymandias'.

The annotation demonstrates the extraordinary range and richness of Shelley's literary intelligence, and situates his work in the revolutionary politics and social upheavals of the early nineteenth century. The text and annotation are supported by an extensive bibliography, a chronology, indexes, and appendices which include a detailed examination of the history of the Cenci story. The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.

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"The whole is a model of objective and scrupulous scholarship...This first reliably complete edition promises to be the standard scholarly text for many years to come." The Times Literary Supplement

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The Editors

Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Geoffrey Matthews was Reader in English at the University of Reading, UK, from 1966 until his death in 1984.

The Contributing Editors

Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.

Ralph Pite is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.

Michael Rossington is Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK.

The General Editors

Paul Hammond, FBA, is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK.

David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.

The Founding General Editor

F.W. Bateson, who founded the series and acted as General Editor for its first generation of titles, was a distinguished critic and scholar. He was lecturer in English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford., the editor of the original Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and founding editor of the journal Essays in Criticism.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 058203082X
• ISBN 13: 9780582030824
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 904