The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Volume 1 - Editorial texts and contents

Sep 20, 2026

Complete poetry volume presenting Percy Bysshe Shelley’s works in an edited scholarly format, led by editors Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. Includes publication credits and press information, front matter acknowledgments, endpapers and illustrations notes, and a detailed table of contents. The contents organize original poetry, letters, songs, fragments, and related commentaries, plus historical collations and appendixes for Latin exercises and prose treated as poems.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages543

Reading Time13 h 56 min

AccessFree to download

Contents of Volume One

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Editorial Overview

Abbreviations

Texts

Commentaries

Historical Collations

Appendixes

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley V O L U M E O N E E D I T E D B Y Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat This book has been brought to publication with the generous assistance of The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation and the Office of Graduate Studies and Research of the University of Maryland. © 2000 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2000 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 [www.press.jhu.edu](www.press.jhu.edu) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data will be found at the end of this book. A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-8018-6119-5 Endpapers: Left to right: Song. Sorrow from Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (1810); Fragment from Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson (1810); epigraph to Chapter 8, St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian (1811) . With kind permission of The Huntington Library. Frontispiece: “A Cat in distress.” Transcript by Elizabeth Shelley, watercolor illustration. With kind permission of The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. For Shawn and Ann Cleveland Fraistat ”. . . wonder[s] of this earth, Where thereis little of transcendent worth ” Julian and Maddalo For Laurel E. Reiman Henneman and Charles C. Henneman ”. . . Wit and sense, Virtue and human knowledge, all that might Make this dull world a business of delight . . .” Letter to Maria Gisborne This page intentionally left blank Contents of Volume One List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Editorial Overview xix Abbreviations xli TEXTS Original Poetry: by Victor and Cazire 3 Letter [1](“Here I sit with my paper, my pen and my ink”) 7 Letter [2](To Miss————From Miss————) 9 Song. (“Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling”) 11 Song. (“Come——! sweet is the hour”) 13 Song. Despair. 14 Song. Sorrow. 15 Song. Hope. 16 Song. Translated from the Italian. 17 Song. Translated from the German. 18 The Irishman’s Song. 18 Song. (“Fierce roars the midnight storm”) 19 Song. To—————(“Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps onyon fountain”) 20 Song. To—————(“Stern, stern is the voice offate’s fearfull command”) 21 Saint Edmond’s Eve. 22 Revenge. 28 Ghasta; or, The Avenging Demon!!! 30 Fragment, or The Triumph of Conscience. 37 The Wandering Jew; or, The Victim of the Eternal Avenger 39 Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems Found Amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who Attempted the Life of the King in 1786. Edited by John Fitzvictor 89 Advertisement. 92 “Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurl’d” 93 Fragment. Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé . 95 Despair. 99 Fragment. (“Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away”) 100 The Spectral Horseman. 101 Melody to a Scene of Former Times. 102 Poems from St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance 105 “T was dead of the night, when I sat in my dwelling” 109 “Ghosts ofthe dead! have I not heard your yelling” 110 Ballad. (“The death-bell beats!——”) 111 Song. (“How swiftly through heaven’s wide expanse”) 114 Song. (“How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner”) 115 Song. (“Ah! faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary”) 116 The Devil’s Walk 119 The Devil’s Walk, a Ballad. 123 Supplement: Letter Version of The Devil’s Walk 128 Ten Early Poems (1809–1814) 131 “A Cat in distress” 135 “How swiftly through Heaven’s wide expanse” 136 “Oh wretched mortal, hard thy fate!” 138 To Mary who died in this opinion 138 “Why is it said thou canst but live” 139 “As you will see I wrote to you” [1st letter to E. F. Graham] 140 “Dear dear dear dear dear dear

FAQs

Who are the editors of this Volume One collection?

The volume is edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat.

What kinds of materials are included in Volume One?

It contains texts (original poetry and letters), commentaries, historical collations, and appendixes.

Does the table of contents cover both poems and editorial apparatus?

Yes. The contents list sections for abbreviations, editorial overview, texts, commentaries, historical collations, and appendixes.

Sep 20, 2026

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