This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Each selection has been thoroughly reedited, and the order of the poems has been rearranged in light of redating or other reconsiderations. All headnotes are new or updated, and many footnotes have been added, replaced, or revised.
"Criticism" reflects the recent renaissance in Shelley studies, the greatest renaissance since 1870-92. All twenty-three essays are new to the Second Edition; among them are the work of Harold Bloom, Stuart Curran, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Michael Ferber, James Chandler, and Susan J. Wolfson.
A Chronology, an updated Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are included.
【目录】
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Textual Introduction
Abbreviations
The Poems
From The Esdaile Notebook
To the Emperors of Russia and Austria
Sonnet: To a balloon, laden with Knowledge
Zeinab and Kathema
The Retrospect
Queen Mab
Alastor
Stanzas.--April, 1814
Mutability ("We are as clouds")
To Wordsworth
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
From Laon and Cythna (later The Revolt of Islam)
Dedication
Canto IX, stanzas xx-xxviii
To Constantia
Ozvmandias
Lines written among the Euganean Hills
Julian and Maddalo
Stanzas written in Dejection--December 1818, Near Naples
The Two Spirits--An Allegory
The Cenci
Prometheus Unbound
The Sensitive-Plant
Ode to Heaven
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
To a Sky-Lark
Ode to Liberty
The Mask of Anarchy
[Sonnet:] England in 1819
Sonnet: To the Republic of Benevento
Sonnet ("Lift not the painted veil")
Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave!")
Letter to Maria Gisborne
Peter Bell the Third
The Witch of Atlas
Song of Apollo
Song of Pan
Epipsychidion
Adonais
Hellas
Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
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