The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Enriched edition. Revolutionary Themes in Romantic Poetry: A Poetry Anthology by a Historical PoetBy Percy Bysshe Shelley
Length49h 17m
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The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley presents a comprehensive collection of one of the most influential Romantic poets of the early 19th century. Shelley's work is characterized by its rich imagery, passionate idealism, and philosophical depth, employing diverse styles that range from lyrical eloquence to complex allegory. This anthology not only encompasses iconic works such as 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'To a Skylark,' but also includes lesser-known poems that reflect his evolving thoughts on the human condition, nature, and political change amidst the tumult of his time. The poems illustrate a commitment to revolution and radical thought within the broader context of Romanticism, grappling with themes of beauty, transience, and the quest for truth. Percy Bysshe Shelley, born into an affluent family in 1792, was deeply influenced by the tumultuous socio-political landscape of his era, including the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. His education at Oxford and subsequent literary connections with fellow Romantics, such as Lord Byron and John Keats, shaped his radical perspectives on love, art, and society, leading him to champion liberty and social justice. Shelley's life, marked by personal tragedy and a restless spirit, further fueled his quest for poetic expression as a means of addressing existential questions. The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley is essential reading for anyone interested in the Romantic movement, as it captures the essence of a poet whose work transcends time. Shelley's unique ability to weave intricate philosophical ideas with exquisite poetic form renders this collection not only a significant literary achievement but also a source of inspiration for contemporary readers seeking to understand the interplay of art and ideology. This anthology invites readers to explore the profound depths of human experience and the perpetual quest for meaning.
In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length49 hrs 17 mins
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Publish dateDec 29, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
221Arethusa
2Introduction
222Song of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna
3Author Biography
223Hymn of Apollo
4Historical Context
224Hymn of Pan
5Synopsis (Selection)
225The Question
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6Preface by Mrs. Shelley to 1839 Edition
226The Two Spirits: An Allegory
7Postscript in 1839 Edition
227Ode to Naples
8Preface by Mrs. Shelley to the Posthumous Poems, 1824
228Autumn: A Dirge
9The Daemon of the World
229The Waning Moon
10Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude
230To the Moon
11Preface
231Death
12Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude
232Liberty
13Note on Alastor, by Mrs. Shelley
233Summer and Winter
14Author’s Preface
234The Tower of Famine
15Dedication
235An Allegory
16To Mary ——
236The World’s Wanderers
17Canto 1
237Sonnet
18Canto 2
238Lines to a Reviewer
19Canto 3
239Fragment of a Satire on Satire
20Canto 4
240Good-Night
21Canto 5
241Buona Notte
22Canto 6
242Orpheus
23Canto 7
243Fiordispina
24Canto 8
244Time Long Past
25Canto 9
245Fragment: The Deserts of Dim Sleep
26Canto 10
246Fragment: ‘The Viewless and Invisible Consequence’
27Canto 11
247Fragment: A Serpent-Face
28Canto 12
248Fragment: Death in Life
29Note on the “Revolt of Islam”, By Mrs. Shelley
249Fragment: ‘Such Hope, As is the Sick Despair of Good’
30Prince Athanase
250Fragment: ‘Alas! This is Not What I Thought Life Was’
31Rosalind and Helen
251Fragment: Milton’s Spirit
32Advertisement.
252Fragment: ‘Unrisen Splendour of the Brightest Sun’
33Rosalind, Helen, and Her Child
253Fragment: Pater Omnipotens
34Note by Mrs. Shelley.
254Fragment: To the Mind of Man
35Julian and Maddalo
255Note on Poems of 1820, by Mrs. Shelley
36Preface
256Dirge for the Year
37Julian and Maddalo
257To Night
38Cancelled Fragments of Julian and Maddalo
258Time
39Note by Mrs. Shelley.
259Lines
40Preface
260From the Arabic: An Imitation
41Dramatis Personae
261To Emilia Viviani
42Act 1
262The Fugitives
43Act 2
263To —
44Act 3
264Song
45Act 4
265Mutability
46Cancelled Fragments of “Prometheus Unbound”
266Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
47Uncancelled Passage
267Sonnet: Political Greatness
48Cancelled Stage Directions
268The Aziola
49Note on “Prometheus Unbound”, By Mrs. Shelley.
269A Lament
50Dedication, to Leigh Hunt, Esq
270Remembrance
51Preface
271To Edward Williams
52Dramatis Personae
272To —
53Act 1
273To —
54Act 2
274A Bridal Song
55Act 3
275Epithalamium
56Act 4
276Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear
57Act 5
277Fragments Written for Hellas
58Note on the Cenci, by Mrs. Shelley.
278Fragment: ‘I Would Not Be a King’
59The Mask of Anarchy
279Ginevra
60Peter Bell the Third
280The Dirge
61Dedication
281Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
62Prologue
282The Boat on the Serchio
63Part 1. Death
283Music
64Part 2. The Devil
284Sonnet to Byron
65Part 3. Hell
285Fragment on Keats
66Part 4. Sin
286Fragment: ‘Methought I was a Billow in the Crowd’
67Part 5. Grace
287To-Morrow
68Part 6. Damnation
288Stanza
69Part 7. Double Damnation
289Fragment: A Wanderer
70Note on Peter Bell the Third, by Mrs. Shelley.
290Fragment: Life Rounded with Sleep
71Letter to Maria Gisborne
291Fragment: ‘I Faint, I Perish with My Love!’
72The Witch of Atlas
292Fragment: The Lady of the South
73To Mary (On Her Objecting to the Following Poem, Upon the Score of its Containing No Human Interest)
293Fragment: Zephyrus the Awakener
74The Witch of Atlas
294Fragment: Rain
75Note on the Witch of Atlas, by Mrs. Shelley
295Fragment: ‘When Soft Winds and Sunny Skies’
76Oedipus Tyrannus
296Fragment: ‘And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned’
77Advertisement
297Fragment: ‘The Rude Wind is Singing’
78Dramatis Personae
298Fragment: ‘Great Spirit’
79Act 1
299Fragment: ‘O Thou Immortal Deity’
80Act 2
300Fragment: The False Laurel and the True
81Note on Oedipus Tyrannus, by Mrs. Shelley
301Fragment: May the Limner
82Epipsychidion
302Fragment: Beauty’s Halo
83Advertisement
303Fragment: ‘The Death Knell is Ringing’
84Epipsychidion
304Fragment: ‘I Stood Upon a Heaven-Cleaving Turret’
85Fragments Connected with Epipsychidion
305Note on Poems of 1821, by Mrs. Shelley
86Adonais
306The Zucca
87Preface
307The Magnetic Lady to Her Patient
88Adonais
308Lines: ‘When the Lamp is Shattered’
89Cancelled Passages of Adonais
309To Jane: The Invitation
90Hellas
310To Jane: The Recollection
91Dedication
311The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisa
92Preface
312With a Guitar, to Jane
93Prologue to Hellas
313To Jane: ‘The Keen Stars Were Twinkling’
94Dramatis Personae
314A Dirge
95Hellas
315Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
96Note on Hellas, by Mrs. Shelley
316Lines: ‘We Meet Not As We Parted’
97Fragments of an Unfinished Drama
317The Isle
98Charles the First
318Fragment: To the Moon
99The Triumph of Life
319Epitaph
100Stanza, Written at Bracknell
320Note on Poems of 1822, by Mrs. Shelley
101Stanzas. — April, 1814
321Hymn to Mercury
102To Harriet
322Homer’s Hymn to Castor and Pollux
103To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
323Homer’s Hymn to the Moon
104To —
324Homer’s Hymn to the Sun
105Mutability
325Homer’s Hymn to the Earth: Mother of All
106On Death
326Homer’s Hymn to Minerva
107A Summer Evening Churchyard
327Homer’s Hymn to Venus
108To —
328The Cyclops
109To Wordsworth
329Epigrams
110Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
3301. — To Stella
111Lines
3312. — Kissing Helena
112Note on the Early Poems, by Mrs. Shelley
3323. — Spirit of Plato
113Poems Written in 1816
3334. — Circumstance
114The Sunset
334Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis
115Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
335Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion
116Mont Blanc
336From the Greek of Moschus
117Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanc
337Pan, Echo, and the Satyr
118Fragment: Home
338From Vergil’s Tenth Eclogue
119Fragment of a Ghost Story
339The Same
120Note on Poems of 1816, by Mrs. Shelley
340From Vergil’s Fourth Georgic
121Marianne’s Dream
341Sonnet. From the Italian of Dante
122To Constantia, Singing
342The First Canzone of the Convito
123Stanzas 1 and 2
343Matilda Gathering Flowers
124To Constantia
344Fragment. Adapted From the Vita Nuova of Dante
125Fragment: To One Singing
345Ugolino
126A Fragment: To Music
346Sonnet. From the Italian of Cavalcanti
127Another Fragment: To Music
347Scenes From the Magico Prodigioso
128‘Mighty Eagle’
348Stanzas From Calderon’s Cisma De Inglaterra
129To the Lord Chancellor
349Scenes From the Faust of Goethe
130To William Shelley
350Queen Mab
131From the Original Draft of the Poem to William Shelley
351To Harriet ——
132On Fanny Godwin
352Queen Mab
133Lines
353Notes on Queen Mab
134Death
354Falsehood and Vice
135Otho
355Note on Queen Mab, by Mrs. Shelley
136Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
356To the Editor of the ‘Examiner.’
137‘O that a chariot of cloud were mine’
357Verses on a Cat
138Fragment: To a Friend Released From Prison
358Fragment: Omens
139Fragment: Satan Broken Loose
359Epitaphium
140Fragment: “Igniculus Desiderii”
360In Horologium
141Fragment: “Amor Aeternus”
361A Dialogue
142Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude
362To the Moonbeam
143A Hate-Song
363The Solitary
144Lines to a Critic
364To Death
145Ozymandias
365Love’s Rose
146Note on Poems of 1817, by Mrs. Shelley
366Eyes: A Fragment
147To the Nile
3671
148Passage of the Apennines
3682. To Miss —— (Harriet Grove) From Miss —— (Elizabeth Shelley)
149The Past
3693. Song
150To Mary —
3704. Song
151On a Faded Violet
3715. Song
152Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills
3726. Song
153Scene From ‘Tasso’
3737. Song
154Song for ‘Tasso’
3748. Song
155Invocation to Misery
3759. Song
156Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
37610. THE IRISHMAN’S SONG
157The Woodman and the Nightingale
37711. Song
158Marenghi
37812. Song
159Sonnet
37913. Song
160Fragment: To Byron
38014. Saint Edmond’s Eve
161Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence
38115. Revenge
162Fragment: The Lake’s Margin
38216. Ghasta or, the Avenging Demon!!!
163Fragment: ‘My Head is Wild with Weeping’
38317. Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience
164Fragment: The Vine-Shroud
384Poems From St. Irvyne, or, the Rosicrucian
165Note on Poems of 1818, by Mrs. Shelley
3851. — Victoria
166Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administration
3862. — On the Dark Height of Jura
167Song to the Men of England
3873. — Sister Rosa: A Ballad
168Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819
3884. — St. Irvyne’s Tower
169Fragment: To the People of England
3895. — Bereavement
170Fragment: ‘What Men Gain Fairly’
3906. — The Drowned Lover
171A New National Anthem
391Advertisement
172Sonnet: England in 1819
392War
173An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before the Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty
393Fragment: Supposed to Be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corday
174Cancelled Stanza
394Symphony
175Ode to Heaven
395Despair
176Cancelled Fragments of the Ode to Heaven
396Fragment
177Ode to the West Wind
397The Spectral Horseman
178An Exhortation
398Melody to a Scene of Former Times
179The Indian Serenade
399Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
180Cancelled Passage
400Bigotry’s Victim
181To Sophia (Miss Stacey)
401On an Icicle That Clung to the Grass of a Grave
182To William Shelley
402Love
183To William Shelley
403On a Fete at Carlton House: Fragment
184To Mary Shelley
404To a Star
185To Mary Shelley
405To Mary Who Died in This Opinion
186On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
406A Tale of Society As It is: From Facts, 1811
187Love’s Philosophy
407To the Republicans of North America
188Fragment: ‘Follow to the Deep Wood’s Weeds’
408To Ireland
189The Birth of Pleasure
409On Robert Emmet’s Grave
190Fragment: Love the Universe to-Day
410The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812
191Fragment: ‘A Gentle Story of Two Lovers Young’
411Fragment of a Sonnet
192Fragment: Love’s Tender Atmosphere
412Sonnet. To a Balloon Laden with Knowledge.
193Fragment: Wedded Souls
413Sonnet. On Launching Some Bottles Filled with Knowledge Into the Bristol Channel.
194Fragment: ‘Is It That in Some Brighter Sphere’
414The Devil’s Walk
195Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day
415Fragment of a Sonnet
196Fragment: ‘Ye Gentle Visitations of Calm Thought’
416On Leaving London for Wales
197Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry
417The Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy
198Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memory
418Evening
199Fragment: ‘When a Lover Clasps His Fairest’
419Song From the Wandering Jew
200Fragment: ‘Wake the Serpent Not’
420Fragment From the Wandering Jew
201Fragment: Rain
421To the Queen of My Heart
202Fragment: A Tale Untold
422Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things
203Fragment: To Italy
423Dedication
204Fragment: Wine of the Fairies
424Poetical Essay
205Fragment: A Roman’s Chamber
425Preface
206Fragment: Rome and Nature
426A Defence of Poetry: An Essay by Shelly
207Variation of the Song of the Moon
427Preface
208Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy
428List of Authorities
209Note on Poems of 1819, by Mrs. Shelley
429Chapter 1. Birth and Childhood
210The Sensitive Plant
430Chapter 2. Eton and Oxford
211Part 1
431Chapter 3. Life in London and First Marriage
212Part 2
432Chapter 4. Second Residence in London, and Separation from Harriet
213Part 3
433Chapter 5. Life at Marlow, and Journey to Italy
214Conclusion
434Chapter 6. Residence at Pisa
215Cancelled Passage
435Chapter 7. Last Days
216A Vision of the Sea
436Chapter 8. Epilogue
217The Cloud
437Appendix
218To a Skylark
438Analysis
219Ode to Liberty
439Reflection
220To —
440Memorable Quotes
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