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The Major Works
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Description for The Major Works
Paperback. A major new edition, freshly edited in many cases from manuscripts, of Shelley's poetry and prose. It contains the longer poems from Queen Mab to The Triumph of Life, including generous selections from Laon and Cythna, a wide range of his shorter poems, and much of his major prose, including A Defence of Poetry. Editor(s): Leader, Zachary; O'Neill, Michael. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 594.
This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors ... Read more
This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose - the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
880
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
880
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538973
SKU
V9780199538973
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About Percy Bysshe Shelley
Zachary Leader has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Among his books are Revision and Romantic Authorship (1996), Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832: An Anthology (co-edited with Ian Haywood) (1999), and (as editor) The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000). Michael O'Neill has published widely on Romantic and twentieth-century poetry. Among his books are The Human Mind's Imaginings: Conflict and ... Read more
Reviews for The Major Works
aptly portrays nature's supremacy through the poem's rich description
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