About this title: This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-04-15
ISBN-13:9780199538973ISBN:0199538972
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780199538973ISBN:0199538972
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 880 pages. A major new edition, freshly edited in many cases from manuscripts, of shelley's poetry and prose. it contains the longer poems from queen mab to the triumph of life, including generous selections from laon and cythna, a wide range of his shorter poems, and much of his major prose, including a defence of poetry. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780192813749ISBN:0192813749
Description: New. 0192813749 From the Publisher Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured. This freshly edited collection--the fullest one-volume selection in English--includes all but one of the longer poems, from Queen Mab onwards, in ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192813749ISBN:0192813749
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2003-07-10
ISBN-13:9780192813749ISBN:0192813749
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"Shelley often gets overlooked because of his more famous social set, but the man who is immortalized as a drowned sailor at Oxford wrote in my opinion the most technically rich and innovative poetry of the Romantic era. Like all Romantics, Shelley is verbose, but look beyond "Mutability" to find lyrical experimentation juxtaposed with complex philosophical arguments."
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