The Poems of Shelley: Volume 2：1817 - 1819

Finally, the long awaited Poems of Shelley, Volume 2, the lastest book in the Longman Annotated English Poets series is here!

• New datings and contextual exposition of the major works
• Fully annotated and arranged in chronological order!
• Research based on manuscripts in the Bodlean Library!

This second of three volumes to be published in all, and the first since 1989, The Poems of Shelley, Volume 2, is fully annotated and organized in chronological order while offering significant new datings and contextual exposition of the major works and comprehensive treatments of the best known shorter poems. The authors make use of the Shelley manuscripts in the Bodlean Library and draw on the substantial new research which has appeared over the last 10 years. The Poems of Shelley, Volume 2, contains approximatley 70 Shelley works including Prometheus Unbound, Laon and Cythna, Julian and Maddalo, The Cenci, Shelley's translations from the Greek, including his highly original translation of Euripides' The Cyclops, as well as, some of Shelley's best known shorter poems, such as 'Lines written among the Euganean Hills' and 'Ozymandias'. The second Volume includes substantial items by three contributing editiors. Jack Donovan , University of York, has edited Laon and Cythna. Ralph Pite, the University of Liverpool, has edited Julian and Maddalo. Michael Rossington, the University of Newcastle, has edited The Cenci. This is the latest work in the highly respected Longman Annotated English Poets series.

Kelvin Everest is Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool.

The late Geoffrey Matthews was Reader in English at the University of Reading.

The Editors

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

Geoffrey Matthews was Reader in English at the University of Reading, UK, from 1966 until his death in 1984.

The Contributing Editors

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

Ralph Pite is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, 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.