Shelley: Selected Poems

Kelvin Everest is Emeritus Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively on English Romantic poetry, including book-length studies of Coleridge and Keats, several edited collections of essays, and numerous articles and chapters. He is the co-editor of the Complete Poems of Shelley in the Longman Annotated English Poets series. His most recent monograph is Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

'This new Shelley: Selected Poems offers the outstanding editorial expertise and critical acumen of the complete Longman Poems in a single judiciously organized volume. It will be of great interest to everyone who cares about one of the most challenging of Romantic poets.'Professor William Keach, Emeritus Professor, Brown University, USA

• ContentsTitle PagePrefaceChronological Table of Shelley’s Life and PublicationsAbbreviationsThe Poems1 Stanzas. — April, 18142 ‘O! there are spirits of the air’3 To Wordsworth4 Mutability5 Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude6 Verses written on receiving a Celandine in a letter from England7 Hymn to Intellectual beauty8 Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni9 Ozymandias10 To Constantia (‘Thy voice, slow rising like a Spirit, lingers’)11 Sonnet (‘Lift not the painted veil which those who live’)12 The Two Spirits. An Allegory13 Lines Written among the Euganean Hills. October, 181814 Stanzas written in dejection — December 1818, near Naples15 Prometheus Unbound16 Julian and Maddalo17 To Night18 The Mask of Anarchy19 Ode to Heaven20 To S[idmouth] and C[astlereagh]21 England in 181922 Ode to the West Wind23 On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci, In the Florentine Gallery24 Love’s Philosophy25 ‘Thou art fair, and few are fairer’26 To —— ("I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden’)27 On a Dead Violet: To ——28 Goodnight29 ‘What men gain fairly, that they should possess’30 An Exhortation31 Song: To the Men of England32 To —— (‘Corpses are cold in the tomb’)33 The Sensitive-Plant34 To —— [Lines to a Reviewer]35 ‘Arethusa arose’36 ‘Arethusa was a maiden’37 ‘God save the Queen!’ [A New National Anthem]38 Song (‘Rarely, rarely comest thou’)39 Song of Apollo40 Song of Pan41 The Cloud42 Evening. Ponte a Mare, Pisa43 Letter to Maria Gisborne44 To a Sky-Lark45 To —— [the Lord Chancellor]46 To —— [Lines to a Critic]47 The Witch of Atlas48 Sonnet: Political Greatness49 ‘Ye hasten to the [grave]! What seek ye there?’50 ‘Rose leaves, when the rose is dead’ [To —— (‘Music, when soft voices die’)]51 Epipsychidion52 A Lament (‘O World, O Life, O Time’)53 ‘When passion’s trance is overpast’54 Adonais55 The Aziola56 Written on hearing the news of the death of Napoleon57 The Indian Girl’s Song58 Autumn: a Dirge59 ‘The flower that smiles today’ [Mutability]60 ‘A widowed bird sate mourning for her love’61 ‘Art thou pale for weariness’62 To — (‘The serpent is shut out from Paradise’)63 To Jane. The invitation64 To Jane — The recollection65 ‘Swifter far than summer’s flight’ / Remembrance [A Lament]66 ‘When the lamp is shattered’ [Lines]67 ‘One word is too often profaned’68 With a guitar. To Jane 69 The magnetic lady to her patient70 The Triumph of Life71 To Jane (‘The keen stars were twinkling’)72 ‘Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven’ [Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici]Index of TitlesIndex of First Lines