{"product_id":"the-complete-poetry-of-percy-bysshe-shelley-9781421451909","title":"The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe latest volume of the acclaimed and magisterial Hopkins Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry, covering the years 1818 to early 1820, the first phase of Shelley's Italian period.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You talk Utopia,\" says the worldly Count Maddalo, reproaching the idealistic Julian in \u003ci\u003eJulian and Maddalo.\u003c\/i\u003e Inspired by conversations conducted on horseback near Venice between the two notorious exiled poets, Shelley and Byron, this poem was among the first of the masterpieces that Shelley wrote after moving with his family in March 1818 from England to post-Napoleonic Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fourth volume of the Hopkins \u003ci\u003eComplete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley \u003c\/i\u003ecovers the years 1818-19 and part of 1820, when Britain was convulsed by popular agitation for the reform of Parliament and stifled by repressive laws against free speech. Among its other contents are \u003ci\u003eThe Cenci, \u003c\/i\u003ean indictment of tyranny, domestic and political, probably the most actable of Romantic dramas; \u003ci\u003eThe Mask of Anarchy, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \"greatest poem\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof political protest ever\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewritten in English\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(too inflammatory to be published at the time); \u003ci\u003ePeter Bell the Third, \u003c\/i\u003e a brilliant satire on Wordsworth; the fiery sonnet \"England in 1819\"; an eclogue for women's voices (\u003ci\u003eRosalind and Helen\u003c\/i\u003e); playful, sophisticated songs (\"Love's Philosophy\") and sad verses (\"Stanzas, Written in dejection\"). Shelley's publications received slashing reviews from politically motivated critics, who attacked his character and principles but acknowledged his poetic gifts. He broadened his scope and composed the most politically engaged poems of his maturity. To quote a Victorian editor, he \"ceased to be a subject of Time, and became a citizen of Eternity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs in previous volumes, meticulously edited texts are accompanied by discussions of the poems' composition, the influences they reflect, their publication, reception, and critical history, and detailed records of textual variants. Appendixes range from Mary Shelley's editorial notes to jottings by Shelley drawn from a hitherto unrecognized source for \u003ci\u003eThe Cenci.\u003c\/i\u003e Readers will find in volume four original research, fresh readings, new contexts, and discoveries--hallmarks of this acclaimed edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolumes 5, 6, and 8 are in preparation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNora Crook \u003c\/b\u003eis emerita professor of English literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.\u003cb\u003e Neil Fraistat\u003c\/b\u003e is emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland, and former president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. \u003cb\u003eStephen C. Behrendt\u003c\/b\u003e is the George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRomanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApproaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eStuart Curran\u003c\/b\u003e was the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania (emeritus) and the past editor of the \u003ci\u003eKeats-Shelley Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51831618601234,"sku":"9781421451909","price":141.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_419966dd-ce52-47c3-81c1-3c2b9b105fea.jpg?v=1767006786","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-complete-poetry-of-percy-bysshe-shelley-9781421451909","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}