Few such volumes have made more difference to an author's reputation. In Genoa during the winter of 1822-23, she painstakingly transcribed poetry "interlined and broken into fragments, so that the sense could only be deciphered and joined by guesses." Blasphemy and sedition laws prevented her from including her husband's most outspoken radical works, but the resulting volume, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824), was a magnificent display of Shelley's versatility and craftsmanship between 18. Determined to hasten that day, she recovered his unpublished and uncollected poems and sifted through his surviving notebooks and papers. "The world will surely one day feel what it has lost," wrote Mary Shelley after Percy Bysshe Shelley's premature death in July 1822. Yeats.This new volume of JHU Press's landmark Shelley edition contains posthumous poems edited from original manuscripts. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced skeptical intellects ever to write a poem." A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. The author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets.
The book: Very beautiful and attractive edition of the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in a beautiful Riviere and Son binding! Illustrations: Complete with the nice frontispiece illustration. A very beautiful binding!Ĭontent: Very good, near fine content (bright, tight, and clean, small stamp of a bookseller on the first endpaper - as shown). Harrap & Co, Ltd., no date (circa 1920).īinding: Attractive and near fine binding, finely bound by Riviere and Son in full blue morocco leather, titles in gilt on spine, all edges gilt (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
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