The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rigorously, enthusiastically, and innovatively edited, this volume has brought excitement and zest to my Shelley-reading life. Australian Book Review With volume seven raising the bar once again, this series is the gold standard for Shelley scholarship. Its expert and illuminating readings are peerless. Madeleine Callaghan, University of Sheffield, The Coleridge Bulletin CPPBS 7 is set to become a model for editing modern poetry manuscripts. It strikes a difficult balance between philological rigor and scholarly comprehensiveness on the one hand and readability and usability at different levels of expertise on the other. Textual critics and students of Shelley's poetry will find it equally indispensable, but it will also serve as an important reference work for Mary Shelley scholars. Valentina Varinelli, Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, European Romantic Review This outstanding installment of an epoch-making edition of Shelley's verse will transform the opportunities afforded to emerging Shelley scholars. Anthony Howe, Birmingham City University, UK, Review of English Studies ...this volume is a triumph, it is breathtaking, it is monumental, it is a summa. Byron Journal Quite possibly the most significant publication among this year's Romantic studies,The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume Seven, edited by Nora Crook, is a magisterial scholarly edition of Shelley's posthumously published poems, including "The Triumph of Life" and many other fragments that Mary Shelley first edited, including some of his most beloved shorter lyrics. Part of the ongoing editorial project now directed by Crook and Neil Fraistat, Volume Seven arrives as a stunning and indispensable book, modeling both textual stewardship and critical acumen. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Exciting revelations, new connections, and editorial discoveries abound in volume seven, which is testament to the brilliance of one of our greatest scholars and editors of the Shelleys, Nora Crook. Keats-Shelley Review

Nora Crook is professor emerita of English literature at Anglia Ruskin University. Neil Fraistat is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and the president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Editorial Overview Abbreviations TEXTS From the Triumph MS and Posthumous Poems (Opening Section) The Triumph of Life Lyric Fragments from the Triumph MS "An Unfinished Drama" From Posthumous Poems: Miscellaneous Poems "On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci" "The Fugitives" "The sun is set, the swallows are asleep" Lyrics for Mary W. Shelley's Proserpine and Midas "Arethusa" "Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth" "Song of Apollo" "Song of Pan" Autumn A Dirge "Our boat is asleep in Serchio's stream" The Zucca The good die first The Two Spirits. An Allegory "Tomorrow" "They diethe dead return not" "O World, O Life, O Time" "Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me" "I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden" "My lost William, thou in whom" "A Portal as of shadowy adamant" "The flower that smiles today" From the Arabicimitation "One word is too often profaned" "Music" "Death is here, and death is there" "When passion's trance is overpast" "Listen, listen, Mary mine" "O Mary dear, that you were here" "Wilt thou forget the happy hours" "The fiery mountains answer each other" "Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed" "There was a little lawny islet" "Rose leaves, when the rose is dead" "Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years" "Tell me, Star, whose wings of light" "Rough wind that moanest loud" "Far, far away, O ye" Jan. 1. 1821 From Posthumous Poems: Fragments "Ginevra" The Historical Tragedy of Charles the First "Mazenghi" "The Woodman and the Nightingale" "Art thou pale for weariness" "I lovedalas, our life is love" "And like a dying lady lean and pale" "These are two friends whose lives were undivided" COMMENTARIES From the Triumph MS and Posthumous Poems (Opening Section) The Triumph of Life Lyric Fragments from the Triumph MS "An Unfinished Drama" From Posthumous Poems: Miscellaneous Poems "On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci" "The Fugitives" "The sun is set, the swallows are asleep" Lyrics for Mary W. Shelley's Proserpine and Midas Autumn A Dirge (and Supplements) "Our boat is asleep in Serchio's stream" The Zucca The good die first The Two Spirits. An Allegory "Tomorrow" "They diethe dead return not" "O World, O Life, O Time" "Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me" "I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden" "My lost William, thou in whom" "A Portal as of shadowy adamant" "The flower that smiles today" From the Arabicimitation "One word is too often profaned" "Music" "Death is here, and death is there" "When passion's trance is overpast" "Listen, listen, Mary mine" "O Mary dear, that you were here" "Wilt thou forget the happy hours" "The fiery mountains answer each other" "Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed" "There was a little lawny islet" "Rose leaves, when the rose is dead" "Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years" "Tell me, Star, whose wings of light" "Rough wind that moanest loud" "Far, far away, O ye" Jan. 1. 1821 From Posthumous Poems: Fragments "Ginevra" The Historical Tragedy of Charles the First "Mazenghi" "The Woodman and the Nightingale" "Art thou pale for weariness" "I lovedalas, our life is love" "And like a dying lady l