Winners of an Honorable Mention from the Modern Language Association's Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition Writing to his publisher in 1813, Shelley expressed the hope that two of his major works "should form one volume"; nearly two centuries later, the second volume of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry fulfills that wish for the first time. This volume collects two important pieces: Queen Mab and The Esdaile Notebook. Privately issued in 1813, Queen Mab was perhaps Shelley's most intellectually ambitious work, articulating his views of science, politics, history, religion, society, and individual human relations. Subtitled A Philosophical Poem: With Notes, it became his most influential—and pirated—poem during much of the nineteenth century, a favorite among reformers and radicals. The Esdaile Notebook, a cycle of fifty-eight early poems, exhibits an astonishing range of verse forms. Unpublished until 1964, this sequence is vital in understanding how the poet mastered his craft. As in the acclaimed first volume, these works have been critically edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. The poems are presented as Shelley intended, with textual variants included in footnotes. Following the poems are extensive discussions of the circumstances of their composition and the influences they reflect; their publication or circulation by other means; their reception at the time of publication and in the decades since; their re-publication, both authorized and unauthorized; and their place in Shelley's intellectual and aesthetic development.

Every poet has major works and minor works. This volume collects many of Shelley's lesser known and most frequently overlooked poems.

DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Percy Bysshe Shelley collection: The Daemon of the World Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude. The Revolt of Islam Prince Athanase Rosalind and Helen Julian and Maddalo Prometheus Unbound The Cenci – A Tragedy in Five Acts The Mask of Anarchy Peter Bell the Third Letter to Maria Gisborne The Witch of Atlas Oedipus Tyrannus Epipsychidion Adonais Hellas Fragments of an Unfinished Drama Charles the First The Triumph of Life Early Poems (1814, 1815): Stanza, Written at Bracknell Stanzas — April, 1814 To Harriet To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Mutability On Death A Summer Evening Churchyard To Wordsworth Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte Lines... Poems Written in 1816-1822: The Sunset Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Mont Blanc Home Fragment of a Ghost Story Marianne's Dream To Constantia, Singing To Constantia To Music 'Mighty Eagle' To William Shelley On Fanny Godwin Death Otho A Hate-Song Lines to a Critic Ozymandias To the Nile Passage of the Apennines The Past To Mary On a Faded Violet October, 1818 Song for 'Tasso' Invocation to Misery The Woodman and the Nightingale Marenghi Sonnet To Byron Apostrophe to Silence The Lake's Margin The Vine-Shroud Song to the Men of England To the People of England 'What Men Gain Fairly' A New National Anthem Ode to Heaven Ode to the West Wind An Exhortation Love's Philosophy The Birth of Pleasure Rain A Tale Untold To Italy Wine of the Fairies A Roman's Chamber Rome and Nature The Sensitive Plant A Vision of the Sea The Cloud To a Skylark Ode to Liberty Dirge for the Year To Night Time The Fugitives The Zucca The Isle... Translations: Hymn to Mercury Homer's Hymns The Cyclops Epigrams from the Greek Pan, Echo, and the Satyr Ugolino.... Juvenilia: Queen Mab Verses on a Cat Omens Epitaphium In Horologium To the Moonbeam The Solitary Love's Rose The Devil's Walk To the Queen of My Heart... Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things A Defence of Poetry – Essay by Shelley Shelley – Biography by John Addington Symonds