The Poems of Shelley: Volume Three
1819 - 1820
1st Edition
Published on 24. January 2011
Book
Hardback
784 pages
978-1-4058-4034-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 third 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.
Most of the poems in the present volume were composed between autumn 1819 and autumn 1820. The poems written in response to the political crisis in England following the 'Peterloo' massacre in August 1819 feature largely, among them The Mask of Anarchy and 'An Ode (Arise, arise, arise!)'. The popular songs, which Shelley intended to gather into a volume to inspire reformers from the labouring classes, several accompanied by significantly new textual material recovered from draft manuscripts, are included, as are the important political works 'Ode to Liberty', 'Ode to Naples' and Oedipus Tyrannus, Shelley's burlesque Greek tragedy on the Queen Caroline affair. Other major poems featured include 'The Sensitive-Plant', 'Ode to the West Wind', 'Letter to Maria Gisborne', an exuberant translation from the ancient Greek of the Homeric 'Hymn to Mercury', and the brilliantly inventive 'The Witch of Atlas'.
In addition to accompanying commentaries, there are extensive bibliographies, a chronology of Shelley's life, and indexes to titles and first lines. Leigh Hunt's informative Preface of 1832 to The Mask of Anarchy is also included as an Appendix. The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.
Most of the poems in the present volume were composed between autumn 1819 and autumn 1820. The poems written in response to the political crisis in England following the 'Peterloo' massacre in August 1819 feature largely, among them The Mask of Anarchy and 'An Ode (Arise, arise, arise!)'. The popular songs, which Shelley intended to gather into a volume to inspire reformers from the labouring classes, several accompanied by significantly new textual material recovered from draft manuscripts, are included, as are the important political works 'Ode to Liberty', 'Ode to Naples' and Oedipus Tyrannus, Shelley's burlesque Greek tragedy on the Queen Caroline affair. Other major poems featured include 'The Sensitive-Plant', 'Ode to the West Wind', 'Letter to Maria Gisborne', an exuberant translation from the ancient Greek of the Homeric 'Hymn to Mercury', and the brilliantly inventive 'The Witch of Atlas'.
In addition to accompanying commentaries, there are extensive bibliographies, a chronology of Shelley's life, and indexes to titles and first lines. Leigh Hunt's informative Preface of 1832 to The Mask of Anarchy is also included as an Appendix. 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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Persons
The Editors
Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.
Cian Duffy is Professor of English Literature at St. Mary's University, UK.
Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, 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.
Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.
Cian Duffy is Professor of English Literature at St. Mary's University, UK.
Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, 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.
Content
The third volume, covering the years 1819 to 1820.
Contents in Alphabetical Order:
A ballad: Young Parson Richards
A daughter mother and a grandmother
A lone wood walk, where meeting branches lean
A metropolis/Hemmed in with mountain walls
A New National Anthem
A poet of the finest water
A swift & hidden Spirit of decay
A Vision of the Sea
A winged city, like a wisp of cloud
An Allegory
An eagle floating in the golden glory
An Exhortation
An Incitement to Satan ('By the everlasting God')
An infant in a boat without a helm
An Ode ('Arise, arise, arise!') A
An Ode ('Arise, arise, arise!') B
And in that deathlike cave
And those sweet flowers that had sprung
And what art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest
Archeanissa, thou of Colophon/Even in whose wrinkles sits keen love
Arethusa
As deaf as adders - and as poisonous too
Child of Despair and Desire
Circumstance (A man who was about to hang himself)
Come thou Awakener of the spirit's Ocean
[Bind] eagle wings upon the lagging hours
Dante's Purgatorio I 1-6
Death
Deluge and dearth, ardours and frosts and earthquake
Englandin 1819
[England] thou widowed mother, whose wan breasts are dry
Ever round around the flowering
Forebodings
Fragment: A Satire upon Satire
Fragments connected with Oedipus Tyrannus A: Roofing his palace chamber with the scalps of women
Fragments connected with Oedipus Tyrannus B: And in those gemless rings which once were eyes
From my hollow heart
From the Arabic: An Imitation (My faint spirit was sitting in the light)
Gather from the uttermost
God and the Devil ('Beautiful this rolling Earth')
Good Night
He cometh forth among men
He wanders like a day-appearing dream
Her dress
His bushy wide and solid beard
His face was like a Snake's, wrinkled and loose
Holy my sweet love
Hymn of Apollo
Hymn of Pan
Hymn to Mercury
I care not for the subtle looks
I had two babes- a sister and a brother
I have had a dream tonight
I hear ye hear/The sudden whirlwind... PU draft?
I love. What me? aye child, I love thee too
I more esteem
I sang of one I knew not
I stood upon a Heaven-cleaving turret
If I walk in Autumn even
If the cloud which roofs the sky
If the good money which I lent to thee
In isles of odoriferous pines
Is it that in some brighter sphere
Is there more on earth than we
It is a savage mountain slope
It was a bright and cheerful afternoon
It was a winter such as when birds die
Italian translation from PU A (II v 48-71)
Italian translation from PU B (II v 72-110)
Italian translation from PU C (IV 1-55 and 57-82)
Italian translation of 'To Sidmouth and Castlereagh'
Italian translation of parts of Laon & Cythna
Kissing Helen(a) (Kissing Helena, together)
Letter to Maria Gisborne
Like a black spider caught
Lines to A Critic
Lines to a Reviewer ('Alas! good friend, what profit can you see')
Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administration
Love, Hope, Desire and Fear
Love's Philosophy
Matilda Gathering Flowers
Mine eyes [ ] like two ever-bleeding wounds
Music ('I pant for the music')
My dear brother Harry
Now the day has died away
O [ ] of thought
O thou immortal deity
O thou power, the swiftest
O! what is that whose light intense
Ode to Heaven
Ode to Liberty
Ode to NaplesA
Ode to NaplesB
Ode to the West Wind
Oh time, oh night, o day
Oh, Music, thou art not "the food of Love"
On a Faded Violet
On the Medusa of Leonardo
One atom of golden cloud, like a fiery star
Orpheus (Not far from hence)
Pantherlike Spirit! Beautiful and swift
People of England, ye who toil and groan
Perhaps the only comfort that remains
Peter Bell the Third
Polluting darkness tremblingly quivers
Proteus Wordsworth, who shall bind thee
Satan at Large ('A golden-winged Angel stood)
Say the beloved Son of Mercury
Shattering the sunlight into many a star
She was the ... Sepulchre
Soft pillows for the fiends
Song (Rarely, rarely comest thou)
Song of Proserpine
Song, To the Men of England
Sonnet ('Ye hasten to the dead !')
Sonnet: Political Greatness
Spirit of Plato (Eagle! Why soarest thou above that tomb?)
Such sorrow this lady to her took
Sucking hydras hashed in sulphur
The Birth of Pleasure ('At the creation of the Earth')
The Cloud
The dashing of the stream is as the voices
The dewy silence of the breathing night
The fiery mountains answer each other ('Liberty')
The fitful alternations of the rain
The Fugitives (The waters are flashing)
The gentleness of rain is in the Wind
The Indian Serenade
The laminatious gossamers were glancing
The Mask of Anarchy
The memory of the good is ever green
The Pursued and the Pursuer
The Question
The roses arose early to blossom
The Sensitive Plant
The Spirit of an infant's purity
The sun is set, the swallows are asleep ('Evening: Ponte A Mare, Pisa')
The Towerof Famine(Amid the desolation of a city)
The vale is like a vast Metropolis
The Waning Moon
The Witch of Atlas
The Woodman and the Nightingale
There is a wind which language faints beneath
There was a gorgeous marriage feast
Thou at whose Dawn the everlasting sun
Time Long Past
Time who outruns and oversoars whatever
To - ('I fear thy kisses')
To - ('When Passion's Trance')
To a Skylark
To lay my weary head upon thy lap
To Music ('Silver key of the fountain of tears)
To Night
To Sidmouth and Castlereagh: Similes
To Sophia
To Stella (Thou wert the morning star among the living)
To William Shelley
To Xanthippe (Here catch this apple, girl + Here catch this apple)
Twas in a wilderness of roses where
'Twas the twentieth of October
Una vallata verde
What has thou done then, Lifted up the curtain
What if the suns and stars and Earth
What think you the dead are?
Where art thou, beloved tomorrow
Why would you overlive your life again
With weary feet chasing Unrest and Care
Within a cavern of man's trackless spirit
Within the surface of the fleeting river
Contents in Alphabetical Order:
A ballad: Young Parson Richards
A daughter mother and a grandmother
A lone wood walk, where meeting branches lean
A metropolis/Hemmed in with mountain walls
A New National Anthem
A poet of the finest water
A swift & hidden Spirit of decay
A Vision of the Sea
A winged city, like a wisp of cloud
An Allegory
An eagle floating in the golden glory
An Exhortation
An Incitement to Satan ('By the everlasting God')
An infant in a boat without a helm
An Ode ('Arise, arise, arise!') A
An Ode ('Arise, arise, arise!') B
And in that deathlike cave
And those sweet flowers that had sprung
And what art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest
Archeanissa, thou of Colophon/Even in whose wrinkles sits keen love
Arethusa
As deaf as adders - and as poisonous too
Child of Despair and Desire
Circumstance (A man who was about to hang himself)
Come thou Awakener of the spirit's Ocean
[Bind] eagle wings upon the lagging hours
Dante's Purgatorio I 1-6
Death
Deluge and dearth, ardours and frosts and earthquake
Englandin 1819
[England] thou widowed mother, whose wan breasts are dry
Ever round around the flowering
Forebodings
Fragment: A Satire upon Satire
Fragments connected with Oedipus Tyrannus A: Roofing his palace chamber with the scalps of women
Fragments connected with Oedipus Tyrannus B: And in those gemless rings which once were eyes
From my hollow heart
From the Arabic: An Imitation (My faint spirit was sitting in the light)
Gather from the uttermost
God and the Devil ('Beautiful this rolling Earth')
Good Night
He cometh forth among men
He wanders like a day-appearing dream
Her dress
His bushy wide and solid beard
His face was like a Snake's, wrinkled and loose
Holy my sweet love
Hymn of Apollo
Hymn of Pan
Hymn to Mercury
I care not for the subtle looks
I had two babes- a sister and a brother
I have had a dream tonight
I hear ye hear/The sudden whirlwind... PU draft?
I love. What me? aye child, I love thee too
I more esteem
I sang of one I knew not
I stood upon a Heaven-cleaving turret
If I walk in Autumn even
If the cloud which roofs the sky
If the good money which I lent to thee
In isles of odoriferous pines
Is it that in some brighter sphere
Is there more on earth than we
It is a savage mountain slope
It was a bright and cheerful afternoon
It was a winter such as when birds die
Italian translation from PU A (II v 48-71)
Italian translation from PU B (II v 72-110)
Italian translation from PU C (IV 1-55 and 57-82)
Italian translation of 'To Sidmouth and Castlereagh'
Italian translation of parts of Laon & Cythna
Kissing Helen(a) (Kissing Helena, together)
Letter to Maria Gisborne
Like a black spider caught
Lines to A Critic
Lines to a Reviewer ('Alas! good friend, what profit can you see')
Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administration
Love, Hope, Desire and Fear
Love's Philosophy
Matilda Gathering Flowers
Mine eyes [ ] like two ever-bleeding wounds
Music ('I pant for the music')
My dear brother Harry
Now the day has died away
O [ ] of thought
O thou immortal deity
O thou power, the swiftest
O! what is that whose light intense
Ode to Heaven
Ode to Liberty
Ode to NaplesA
Ode to NaplesB
Ode to the West Wind
Oh time, oh night, o day
Oh, Music, thou art not "the food of Love"
On a Faded Violet
On the Medusa of Leonardo
One atom of golden cloud, like a fiery star
Orpheus (Not far from hence)
Pantherlike Spirit! Beautiful and swift
People of England, ye who toil and groan
Perhaps the only comfort that remains
Peter Bell the Third
Polluting darkness tremblingly quivers
Proteus Wordsworth, who shall bind thee
Satan at Large ('A golden-winged Angel stood)
Say the beloved Son of Mercury
Shattering the sunlight into many a star
She was the ... Sepulchre
Soft pillows for the fiends
Song (Rarely, rarely comest thou)
Song of Proserpine
Song, To the Men of England
Sonnet ('Ye hasten to the dead !')
Sonnet: Political Greatness
Spirit of Plato (Eagle! Why soarest thou above that tomb?)
Such sorrow this lady to her took
Sucking hydras hashed in sulphur
The Birth of Pleasure ('At the creation of the Earth')
The Cloud
The dashing of the stream is as the voices
The dewy silence of the breathing night
The fiery mountains answer each other ('Liberty')
The fitful alternations of the rain
The Fugitives (The waters are flashing)
The gentleness of rain is in the Wind
The Indian Serenade
The laminatious gossamers were glancing
The Mask of Anarchy
The memory of the good is ever green
The Pursued and the Pursuer
The Question
The roses arose early to blossom
The Sensitive Plant
The Spirit of an infant's purity
The sun is set, the swallows are asleep ('Evening: Ponte A Mare, Pisa')
The Towerof Famine(Amid the desolation of a city)
The vale is like a vast Metropolis
The Waning Moon
The Witch of Atlas
The Woodman and the Nightingale
There is a wind which language faints beneath
There was a gorgeous marriage feast
Thou at whose Dawn the everlasting sun
Time Long Past
Time who outruns and oversoars whatever
To - ('I fear thy kisses')
To - ('When Passion's Trance')
To a Skylark
To lay my weary head upon thy lap
To Music ('Silver key of the fountain of tears)
To Night
To Sidmouth and Castlereagh: Similes
To Sophia
To Stella (Thou wert the morning star among the living)
To William Shelley
To Xanthippe (Here catch this apple, girl + Here catch this apple)
Twas in a wilderness of roses where
'Twas the twentieth of October
Una vallata verde
What has thou done then, Lifted up the curtain
What if the suns and stars and Earth
What think you the dead are?
Where art thou, beloved tomorrow
Why would you overlive your life again
With weary feet chasing Unrest and Care
Within a cavern of man's trackless spirit
Within the surface of the fleeting river