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by: Percy Bysshe Shelley See Larger Image List Price: $18.75 Amazon.com's Price: $16.87 You Save: $1.88 (10%) Prices subject to change. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 821.7 EAN: 9780393977523 ISBN: 0393977528 Label: W. W. Norton Manufacturer: W. W. Norton Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 816 Publication Date: 2002-01 Publisher: W. W. Norton Sales Rank: 40714 Studio: W. W. Norton Related Items: Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition) Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) William Wordsworth - The Major Works: including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics) The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library) Byron's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: This volume contains one of the fullest, and certainly the most accurately edited, collections of Shelley's poetry and prose available. This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts established by Reiman and Fraistat for their scholarly edition, The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Each poetry and prose selection has been reedited from the ground up. Headnotes detailing the textual history of Shelley's major works have been revised and expanded, and many new and revised footnotes are included. The years since 1977—when the First Edition appeared—have witnessed a renaissance in Shelley studies greater than any since 1870-92. All 23 critical selections are new, and include analysis of Shelley's manuscripts and other textual sources for his writing as well as interpretations. A Chronology, rigorously updated Selected Bibliography, and Index of Titles and First Lines are also included. About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A Simple List This text is a great one, as are all of the Norton anthologies that I have bought over the years. The works it contains are as follows: Poetry: "Queen Mab" "Alastor" "Stanzas -- April, 1814" "Mutability" "To Wordsworth" "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" "Mont Blanc" Excerpts from "Laon and Cynthia" "To Constantia" "Ozymandias" "Lines written among the Euganean Hills" "Julian and Maddalo" "Stanza written in Dejection" ... Read More Rating: - A fiery Romantic Shelley is a figure of fire; whenever I read any of his works I sense a tremendous energy and vitality, and a great love of life in all its forms. Shelley lived by the ideals he set out in his poetry and also his radical politics; complete freedom and the embracement of individual choice, and the rejection of all forms of authority which strangled creativity and the human spirit. At the level of his art, this led to Shelley becoming one of the finest poets of the Romantic era and of the English ... Read More Rating: - A Hero Percy Bysshe Shelley is undoubtedly one of the double handful of master poets of the English language. He's something more to many of us, a figure of great charisma and daring who spent his life in relentless search of a better way to be than what we're perpetually settling for, politically, erotically, personally. This quest took him into several flavors of exile, and into darker places within; early on he abandoned belief and near the end, some say, abandoned hope. But he wrote what it was like all the ... Read More Rating: - Pure Intellectual Beauty Shelley is the wild child of English poetry and his determined opposition to tyranny produced a huge variety of poetry, ranging from the rending lament of Keats in Adonais, to the defiant and taut sonnet Ozymandias. His single greatest work, however, is Prometheus Unbound, which a vast gothic ruin of neat poetry. One shot of it and you'll wonder why a) all the nice, obvious prosy bits seem to have been left out and b) why exactly you love it, and him, so much. Like a cross between a vision of God and a lobotomy. Read More Rating: - Indispensable If you only buy one book of Shelley's works -- make it this one. This edition contains all Shelley's major poetry, as well as three essays (see table of contents on this page). The bonus is that, as this is a critical edition, it also contains 15 brief critical essays, which are among the best explications you'll find of Shelley's work. (Since it's a critical edition, the poems are also heavily footnoted, something you'll either love or hate.) The only downside is that a number of Shelley's ... Read More

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