Description
This new Longman Cultural Edition features Shelley’s poetry and political writing, emphasizing his role as radical theorist, political reformer, and passionate advocate of individual and civil liberty.
This thoughtful collection reflects the deep political convictions that inform works such as Prometheus Unbound and Ode to the West Wind, often regarded as abstract and esoteric. Shelley's work is contextualized by contemporary accounts of events that spurred his writing, from the national outpouring of grief at the death of Princess Charlotte Augusta and the nearly simultaneous executions of Derbyshire reformist rebels, to the violent suppression of a peaceful reform rally in Manchester in 1819. Political caricatures and selections of radical writing from the periodical press enable today’s readers to recognize the political Shelley and understand his abuse in startlingly hostile contemporary reviews to this great, adventurous poet.
Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete texts of important literary works, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.
The following Longman Cultural Editions are available now: Beowulf, Hamlet, Othello, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Hard Times, Northanger Abbey, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Dorothy Wordsworth, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Wuthering Heights.
New titles include Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Forster's Howards End, and Kipling's Kim.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Life and Times
Table of Dates
Shelley’s Works
Alastor
Mutability
On the Punishment of Death
On a Future State
To Wordsworth
Feelings of Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
An Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte
Other Deaths in 1817
“Accouchement and decease of H. R. H. Princess Charlotte.” European Magazine, (Nov. 1817)
“Derbyshire.” New Monthly Magazine 8.47 (Dec. 1817)
“The Execution of Jeremiah Brandreth . . . “(broadside, 1817)
Ozymandias
Lines written among the Euganean Hills
Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples
Political Poems of 1819
Lines written during the Castlereagh Administration
Song: To the Men of England
England in 1819
Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819
National Anthem
An Ode, written October 1819, before the Spaniards had recovered their Liberty
The Mask of Anarchy
Politics and Violence in the Regency
“The Constitution.” Black Dwarf 1.1 (29 Jan. 1817)
“Disturbances at Manchester [Peterloo].” Examiner (22 Aug. 1819)
“Stanzas Occasioned by the Manchester Massacre!” Black Dwarf (25 Aug. 1819)
Shelley and Political Caricature
The Political House that Jack Built (Hone and Cruikshank), title page
The Political House that Jack Built (Hone and Cruikshank), “These are the People”
The Queen’s matrimonial Ladder (Hone and Cruikshank), title page
The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder (Hone and Cruikshank), “Qualification”
Prometheus Unbound
Prometheus and Romanticism
Headnote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Prometheus”
George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Prometheus”
On Life
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
To a Sky-Lark
Sonnet [“Lift not the painted veil”]
Sonnet: Political Greatness
Ode to Liberty
Peter Bell the Third
Adonais
Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
A Defence of Poetry
Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry
Sonnet to Byron
Late Lyrics
The Serpent is Shut Out from Paradise
To Jane — The Invitation
To Jane — The Recollection
With a guitar, to Jane
To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling
Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
The Triumph of Life
Contemporary Reviews of Shelley’s Writing
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (September 1820)
The London Magazine and Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review (September and October 1820
The Quarterly Review 26 (October 1821)
The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, 255 (December 8, 1821)
Further Reading
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