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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792â1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the fifth volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelleyâs poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelleyâs varied and allusive verse.

Most of the poems in the present volume were composed between late summer 1821 and late January 1822. They include Hellas, a lyrical drama written in support of the Greek War of Independence, composed in SeptemberâNovember 1821 and published in FebruaryâMarch 1822, his unfinished tragedy Charles the First which he had been planning for several years, as w

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/20/2024
      ISBN13: 9781138016644, 978-1138016644
      ISBN10: 1138016640
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792â1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the fifth volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelleyâs poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelleyâs varied and allusive verse.

      Most of the poems in the present volume were composed between late summer 1821 and late January 1822. They include Hellas, a lyrical drama written in support of the Greek War of Independence, composed in SeptemberâNovember 1821 and published in FebruaryâMarch 1822, his unfinished tragedy Charles the First which he had been planning for several years, as w

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