Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Critical Heritage

James E. Barcus

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9780415134460
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134782079
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation.
Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
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Index

I SHELLEY’S WRITINGS

‘Adonais,’ 3, 31, 32, 283, 289, 295–316, 369. 376–7 386; parodied, 304–5, 309–10

Alastor, 3, 12–14, 74, 95–105, 273, 287, 340, 342, 351, 358, 397–8, 416

Cenci, The, 2, 3, 20–7, 70, 163–224, 225, 275, 283, 305–6, 314, 327, 359, 367–8, 376, 391–2, 402–3, 411; Beatrice, character of, 24, 170–1, 183–4, 197, 200, 201–2, 215, 392, 402, 411; Cenci, character of, 22, 24, 164, 165–6, 201–2, 219, 223–4; unstageability, 20, 165, 175, 183

‘Charles I,’ 344

‘Cloud, the,’ 243, 256

Declaration of Rights, see Necessity of Atheism

‘Defence of Poetry,’ 373, 393, 406–7

‘Demon of the World,’ see Queen Mab

‘Dirge,’ 344

‘Epipsychidion’, 3, 31, 32, 289–95, 384

Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, 6, 374–8, 393–394

‘Ginevra,’ 344

‘Hellas,’ 31, 33, 289, 290, 316–28, 389

‘Hymn of Pan,’ 344

‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,’ 19, 366, 415

‘Julian and Maddalo,’ 340–1, 376, 416

Laon and Cythna, see Revolt of Islam

‘Letter to a Friend in London,’ 343

Letters, 13–14, 20, 21, 32, 36

‘Lines Written among the Euganian Hills,’ 19, 146, 161–2, 347

‘Marianne’s Dream,’ 341

‘Mont Blanc,’ 344

Necessity of A...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• General Editor’s Preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Note on the Text
• Original Poetry, by Victor and Cazire: 1810
• Zastrozzi, a Romance: 1810
• St. Irvyne: or The Rosicrucian: 1811
• The Necessity of Atheism and a Declaration of Rights: 1811
• Queen Mab: 1813
• Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude: and other poems: 1816
• The Revolt of Islam: 1818
• Rosalind and Helen: 1819
• The Cenci: September 1819
• Prometheus Unbound: September 1820
• General Comment and Opinions in 1820 and 1821
• ‘Epipsychidion,’ ‘Adonais’, ‘Hellas,’ and General Comment From: 1822 to 1824
• Posthumous Poems 1824: English and American Criticism From 1824 to 1840
• Reassessments and Reconsiderations After 1840
• Select Bibliography
• Index