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Book SynopsisPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792â1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final 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 January 1822 and Shelleyâs death on 8 July 1822. These include the lyrics to Jane Williams, Fragments of an Unfinished Drama and The Triumph of Life as well as translations from Goetheâs Faust (1822) and CalderÃnâs El mÃgico prodigioso. The appendices include editi
