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Selected Poems and Prose

Percy Bysshe Shelley Jack Donovan Cian Duffy

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Penguin
30 January 2017
A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems 'Prometheus Unbound' and 'Adonais', an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include 'To a Skylark', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Ode to the West Wind'. This excellent new edition collects his best poetry and prose, revealing how his writings weave together the political, personal, visionary and idealistic.

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 39mm
Weight:   639g
ISBN:   9780241253069
ISBN 10:   0241253063
Pages:   912
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author) Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 and published his first volume of poetry in 1809. He was expelled from Oxford University for his distributing a pamphlet entitled 'The Necessity of Atheism'. Four months later, he eloped with and married Harriet Westbrook but later left her for Mary Wollstonecraft, future author of Frankenstein. Shelley was working on his last major poem, The Triumph of Life, when he was drowned in Italy in 1822, aged twenty-nine. Jack Donovan (External Editor) Jack Donovan is a Reader in English Literature at the University of York and co-editor of the Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Shelley. Cian Duffy (External Editor) Cian Duffy is Reader in English at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. He co-edits the Longman Shelley, and is the author of Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime (2005; 2009).

Reviews for Selected Poems and Prose

This is such an important and definitive edition. It will suit both the scholar and the general reader ... One can only marvel at the amount of editorial work that has gone into this volume -- Nick Lezard * Guardian *


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