The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley circa 1890 vintage poetry book with beautiful leather, embossed in gold. Gift

This book, The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley edited by Edward Dowden, gathers the complete poetic output of Shelley.

1. Major Verse & Closet Dramas: all of Shelley's major longer masterpieces and verse dramas:
• Prometheus Unbound – His famous four-act lyrical drama.
• The Cenci – A dark tragic play in five acts.
• Adonais – His celebrated pastoral elegy written for John Keats.
• The Revolt of Islam – A sprawling narrative poem across twelve cantos.
• Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude – One of his first major visionary poems.
• Queen Mab – His early politically charged philosophical poem.
• The Mask of Anarchy, The Witch of Atlas, and The Triumph of Life.

2. Famous Shorter Lyrics & Anthologized Sonnets: his most famous shorter Romantic lyrics, including:
• Ozymandias – His iconic sonnet on the transience of power.
• Ode to the West Wind – A powerful meditation on nature and political change.
• To a Skylark and The Cloud.
• Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc.

3. Editorial & Critical Material: includes structural additions:
• A Biographical Introduction – An overview of Shelley's life, ideals, and writing style by Dowden.
• Extensive Explanatory Notes – Commentary detailing the dates of composition, publishing variations, and historical context of specific stanzas.
• Mary Shelley's Prefaces – Historical prefaces and postscripts written by his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, retrieved from her posthumous collections of his work.
• Translations & Juvenilia – Shelley's translations of classic texts (such as Homeric hymns, Euripides, and Goethe's Faust), along with fragments of his earliest student-era poetry.

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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
1890