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Selected Poems and Prose
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Description for Selected Poems and Prose
paperback. Editor(s): Donovan, Jack; Duffy, Cian. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 45. Weight in Grams: 636.
A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems 'Prometheus Unbound' and 'Adonais', an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include 'To a Skylark', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Ode to the West Wind'. This important new edition collects his best poetry ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
944
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241253069
SKU
V9780241253069
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About Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author) Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 and published his first volume of poetry in 1809. He was expelled from Oxford University for his distributing a pamphlet entitled 'The Necessity of Atheism'. Four months later, he eloped with and married Harriet Westbrook but later left her for Mary Wollstonecraft, future author of Frankenstein. Shelley ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Poems and Prose
This is such an important and definitive edition. It will suit both the scholar and the general reader ... One can only marvel at the amount of editorial work that has gone into this volume
Nick Lezard
Guardian
Nick Lezard
Guardian