The Poems of Shelley: 1819 - 1820

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the third volume of the 4-volume Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley?s 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 authentic and accurate text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley?s varied and allusive verse.

The Editors

Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.

Cian Duffy is Professor of English Literature at St. Mary’s University, UK.

Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Michael Rossington is Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK.

The General Editors

Paul Hammond FBA is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK.

David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.

The Founding General Editor

F.W. Bateson, who founded the series and acted as General Editor for its first generation of titles, was a distinguished critic and scholar. He was lecturer in English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the editor of the originalCambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and founding editor of the journalEssays in Criticism.