{"product_id":"the-complete-poetry-of-percy-percy-bysshe-shelley-9781421437835","title":"The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis new volume of JHU Press's landmark Shelley edition contains posthumous poems edited from original manuscripts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The world will surely one day feel what it has lost,\" wrote Mary Shelley after Percy Bysshe Shelley's premature death in July 1822. Determined to hasten that day, she recovered his unpublished and uncollected poems and sifted through his surviving notebooks and papers. In Genoa during the winter of 1822-23, she painstakingly transcribed poetry \"interlined and broken into fragments, so that the sense could only be deciphered and joined by guesses.\" Blasphemy and sedition laws prevented her from including her husband's most outspoken radical works, but the resulting volume, \u003ci\u003ePosthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley \u003c\/i\u003e(1824), was a magnificent display of Shelley's versatility and craftsmanship between 1816 and 1822. Few such volumes have made more difference to an author's reputation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventh volume of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eComplete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003c\/i\u003e extracts from\u003ci\u003e Posthumous Poem\u003c\/i\u003es those original poems and fragments Mary Shelley edited. The collection opens with Shelley's enigmatic dream vision \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, the last major poem he began--and, in the opinion of T. S. Eliot, the finest thing he ever wrote. There follow some of the most famous and beautiful of Shelley's short lyrics, narrative fragments, two unfinished plays, and other previously unreleased pieces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpholding the standards of accuracy and comprehensiveness set by previous volumes, every item in Volume 7 has been newly edited from the original manuscripts, in some cases superseding texts that have stood since 1870. Extensive appendixes contain Mary Shelley's preface to \u003ci\u003ePosthumous Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Shelley's source for \"Ginevra,\" and preparatory material for his play\u003ci\u003e Charles the First\u003c\/i\u003e. Wide-ranging discussions of the poems' composition, influences, publication, circulation, reception, and critical history accompany detailed records of textual variants for each work. The editorial overview and commentaries offer insights into Mary Shelley's editorial strategies while proposing surprising new contexts and redatings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolumes 4 to 6 are in preparation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Percy Bysshe Shelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142143783X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421437835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 2.40d","brand":"Percy Bysshe Shelley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43987551256831,"sku":"9781421437835","price":142.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6909a42c-dad3-4c8f-9d38-fdc1276809b9.jpg?v=1683289662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-complete-poetry-of-percy-percy-bysshe-shelley-9781421437835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}