Shelley: Selected Poetry (Poetry Library, Penguin) - Softcover

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140585044 ISBN 13: 9780140585049

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1985

Synopsis

In spirit, Percy Shelley was perhaps the most essentially romantic poet of his age. Intense, idealistic, personal, his is the poetry of youth. His brief, impetuous life aroused great controversy, and, like Byron, he lives on outside his verse.
 
Shelley’s work has been criticized for its undisciplined emotionalism. But essentially he was a poet of ideas, and in his search for truth and original human perfection, Shelley was inspired as much by the Greek poets and philosophers, particularly Plato, as by the radicalism of his own age. Above all, his great gift was his lyricism, and his verse comes as near to music as poetry can. As the poet Kathleen Raine said, “In his art if not in his life, Shelley was able to soar, to give expression to those dreams and visions which, continually broken by reality, are inextinguishable in the human spirit.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets, personified the richly various- and contradictory- energies of his time. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley gave voice to English romanticism's deepest aspirations.

Review

Adonais
The Aziola
Chorus (1)
Chorus (2)
Chorus Of Spirits Of The Mind
The Cloud
The Earth
England In 1819
Epipsychidion
Fragment (1)
Hymn To Intellectual Beauty
The Indian Serenade
Letter To Maria Gisborne
Lines (1)
Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills
Lines Written On Hearing The News Of The Death Of Napoleon
Love's Philosophy
The Mask Of Anarchy; Written On Occasion Of Massacre At Manchester
Mont Blanc; Lines Written In The Vale Of Chamouni
Mutability (2)
O World, O Life, O Time
Ode To The West Wind
Ozymandias
Part The Fifth: Grace
Part The Fourth: Sin
Part The Third: Hell
Prometheus [or Asia]
Song
Song Of Appolo
The Song Of Pan
Song To The Men Of England
Spirit Of The Hour
Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples
There Was A Poet, Whose Untimely Tomb
To - (5)
To A Skylark
To Jane: Keen Stars
To Jane: The Recollection
To Night
To The Lord Chancellor
To The Moon (1)
The Triumph Of Life
Verses Written On Receiving A Celandine In A Letter
The Waning Moon
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140585044
• ISBN 13: 9780140585049
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320