The Poems of Shelley: Volume 1：1804-1817

This is the first edition of Shelley to present the poetry in chronological order with full annotation, and the first to make full use of the wealth of manuscript material and scholarship that exists on Shelley. Volume 1 contains a mass of new and important material such as the early 'Esdaile' poems and thw whole of the 'Scope Davis' notebook. There are significant new datings and numerous corrections to long-established errors and misunderstandings in the transmission of Shelley's work.

The Editors

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

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