Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series, Book 17)
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Overview: English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language.
Late in August 1811, Shelley eloped with the love of his life, Harriet Westbrook, the younger daughter of a London tavern owner. Because Shelley’s health suffered from the climate and his financial obligations outran his resources, the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont (Mary’s stepsister) went to Italy, where Byron was residing. They reached Milan in April 1818 and proceeded to Pisa and Leghorn (Livorno).
Thus far, Shelley’s literary career had been politically oriented, mostly devoted to reforming society. But in Italy, far from the daily irritations of British politics, Shelley deepened his understanding of art and literature and, unable to reshape the world to conform to his vision, he concentrated on embodying his ideals within his poems.
Settling next at Rome, Shelley continued Prometheus Unbound and outlined The Cenci, a tragedy on the Elizabethan model based on a case of incestuous rape and patricide in sixteenth-century Rome. Shelley himself terms The Cenci “a sad reality,” contrasting it with earlier “visions . . . of the beautiful and just.” Memorable characters, classic five-act structure, powerful and evocative language, and moral ambiguities still make The Cenci theatrically effective.
In Prometheus Shelley inverts the plot of a lost play by Aeschylus in a poetic masterpiece that combines supple blank verse with a variety of complex lyric measures. Prometheus Unbound, which was the keystone of Shelley’s poetic achievement, was written after he had been chastened by “sad reality” but before he began to fear that he had failed to reach an audience.
Shelley and Edward Williams drowned on July 8, 1822, when their boat sank during the stormy return voyage to Lerici.
Genre: Poetry; 19th-Century English Poetry; Romantic Poetry
This volume presents the complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material.
CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
ORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE
POSTHUMOUS FRAGMENTS OF MARGARET NICHOLSON
POEMS FROM ST. IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN.
THE DEVIL’S WALK: A BALLAD
QUEEN MAB
INDIVIDUAL POEMS
ALASTOR
THE REVOLT OF ISLAM
ROSALIND AND HELEN
JULIAN AND MADDALO: A CONVERSATION
PETER BELL THE THIRD
THE MASK OF ANARCHY
THE WITCH OF ATLAS
EPIPSYCHIDION
ADONAIS
THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD
PRINCE ATHANASE
LETTER TO MARIA GISBORNE
THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE
TRANSLATIONS
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Poetic Dramas
THE CENCI
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
OEDIPUS TYRANNUS
HELLAS
FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED DRAMA
CHARLES THE FIRST
The Novels
ZASTROZZI
ST IRVYNE; OR, THE ROSICRUCIAN
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
The Non-Fiction
LIST OF ESSAYS
The Biography
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY by John Addington Symonds
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