Poems of Shelley: Volume Six

Carlene Adamson was formerly Assistant Professor of English at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.Will Bowers is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at Queen Mary University of London, UK.Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor Emeritus at the University of Liverpool, UK.Mathelinda Nabugodi is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London, UK.Michael Rossington is Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK.

‘[T]he editors have produced a formidable resource of which earlier readers, including the poems’ first audiences, could barely have dreamt. In doing so they have fulfilled the foundational, democratizing aim of the Longman series – as envisaged by figures such as Bateson and Matthews – of making available to the reader the array of influences and contexts that inform a poetic corpus such as Shelley’s. If for some readers the pleasures of the novelty of Shelley have ceased, then they are sure to be rekindled by the scrupulous exactness and breadth of explanation to be found in these volumes.’ - Ross Wilson, The TLS, December 13th 2024

• ContentsNote on IllustrationsPreface to Volume 6AcknowledgementsChronological Table of Shelley’s Life and PublicationsAbbreviationsTHE POEMS430 To — (‘The serpent is shut out from Paradise’) [To Edward Williams]431 To Jane. The invitation432 To Jane — The recollection431/432 Appendix The Pine Forest of the Cascine, near Pisa433 ‘Swifter far than summer’s flight’ / Remembrance [A Lament]434 ‘And if I dedicate thee not to fill’435 ‘When wilt thou come —’ / ‘Of whom thou speakest?’436 Fragments of an Unfinished Drama437 ‘When the lamp is shattered’ [Lines]438 ‘The rude wind is singing’439 ‘One word is too often profaned’ [To —]440 May-day Night [Scenes from the Faust of Goëthe]441 Cyprian [Scenes from the ‘Magico Prodigioso’ of Calderon]442 ‘The bat and the owl like barn-door fowl’ [Herne’s Feast: a Fragment]443 ‘One word has changed the Universe for me’444 ‘A schoolboy lay near a pond in a copse’ [Herne’s Feast: a Fragment]445 ‘And have we trodden the same paths together’446 With a guitar. To Jane447 Prologue in Heaven [Scenes from the Faust of Goëthe]448 The prophet449 The magnetic lady to her patient450 ‘Far far away, O ye’ [Lines]451 ‘The earthquake is rocking’452 The Triumph of Life452 Appendix Lines connected with The Triumph of Life453 To Jane (‘The keen stars were twinkling’)454 ‘Tell me star, whose wings of light’ [The World’s Wanderers]455 ‘The hours are flying’456 ‘Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven’ [Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici]456A ‘That moment is gone for ever’ [Lines (‘We meet not as we parted’)]Appendix A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things Appendix B ‘They approach you again, fluctuating Shapes!’ (Translation of Goethe, Faust ll. 1-32 and 243-1213)Appendix C Prometheus Chained (Translation of Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound ll. 1-316)Appendix D ‘A belated sleep fell on his eyelids then’ (Translation of Homer, Odyssey xiii 79-80)Appendix E ‘It is a singular world we live in — and’ (Translation of Calderón, La vida es sueño ll. 2153-64, 2168-71, 2175-77 and 2182-87)Index of Titles (Volume 6)Index of First Lines (Volume 6)Cumulative Index of Titles (Volumes 1-6)Cumulative Index of First Lines (Volumes 1-6)Index of Shelley’s verse translations (Volumes 1-6)