The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781513287010
• eBook ISBN: 9781513287010
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III (1914) compiles some of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known works as a leading poet, playwright, and political thinker of the nineteenth century. As a leading figure among the English Romantics, Shelley was a master of poetic form and tradition who recognized the need for radical change in the social order. His work has influenced such writers and intellectuals as Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, W. B. Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. In this final volume of Shelley's collected works, the poet's skill as a translator is on full display. Included within are translations from the Greek of Homer and Plato, from the Latin of Vergil, from the Spanish of Calderon, from the German of Goethe, and from the Italian of Dante, to name only a few. In addition, The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III contains some of Shelley's earliest works as a poet, such as Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire—written with his sister and originally published in 1810—and other examples of juvenilia. Many of these poems remained unpublished upon Shelley's death, including "Eyes: A Fragment, " which made its first appearance in an 1870 edition of Shelley's works published by William Michael Rossetti. In this poem, a deceptively simple lyric, Shelley conflates language and vision to capture the communication made possible only through silence, which allows one "look [to] light a waste of years, / Darting the beam that conquers cares / Through the cold shower of tears." In these fragments, songs, translations, and youthful verses, Shelley demonstrates his workmanlike ability with language, a tirelessness fueled with a passion as thrilling as it must be rare. This edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Translations
• Hymn to Mercury. Translated from the Greek of Homer
• Homer’s Hymn to Castor and Pollux
• Homer’s Hymn to the Moon
• Homer’s Hymn to the Sun
• Homer’s Hymn to the Earth: Mother of All
• Homer’s Hymn to Minerva
• Homer’s Hymn to Venus. (Verses 1-55, with Some Omissions)
• The Cyclops. A Satyric Drama Translated from the Greek of Euripides
• Epigrams
• Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis. From the Greek of Bion
• Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Bion. From the Greek of Moschus
• From the Greek of Moschus
• Pan, Echo, and the Satyr. From the Greek of Moschus
• From Vergil’s Tenth Eclogue. (Verses 1-26)
• The Same. (As revised by Mr. C.D. Locock)
• From Vergil’s Fourth Georgic. (Verses 360 Et Seq.)
• Sonnet. From the Italian of Dante
• The First Canzone of the Convito. From the Italian of Dante
• Matilda Gathering Flowers. From the Purgatorio of Dante
• Fragment. Adapted from the Vita Nuova of Dante
• Ugolino. Inferno 33, 22-75, Translated by Medwin and corrected by Shelley
• Sonnet. From the Italian of Cavalcanti
• Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso. From the Spanish of Calderon
• Stanzas from Calderon’s Cisma de Inglaterra. Translated by Medwin and corrected by Shelley
• Scenes from the Faust of Goethe
• Juvenilia
• To Harriet *****
• Queen Mab
• Note on Queen Mab, by Mrs. Shelley
• Verses on a Cat
• Fragment: Omens
• Epitaphium. (Latin Version of the Epitaph in Gray’s Elegy)
• In Horologium
• A Dialogue
• To the Moonbeam
• The Solitary
• To Death
• Love’s Rose
• Eyes: A Fragment
• Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire
• Poems from St. Irvyne, or, the Rosicrucian
• Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Mcholson
• Advertisement
• War
• Fragment: Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corday
• Symphony
• Despair
• Fragment
• The Spectral Horseman
• Melody to a Scene of Former Times
• Stanza from a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
• Bigotry’s Victim
• On an Icicle that Clung to the Grass of a Grave
• Love
• On a Fete at Carlton House: Fragment
• To a Star
• To Mary Who Died in this Opinion
• A Tale of Society as it is: From Facts, 1811
• To the Republicans of North America
• To Ireland
• On Robert Emmet’s Grave
• The Retrospect: CWM Elan, 1812
• Fragment of a Sonnet. To Harriet
• To Harriet
• Sonnet. To a Balloon Laden with Knowledge
• Sonnet. On Launching Some Bottles Filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel
• The Devil’s Walk. A Ballad
• Fragment of a Sonnet. Farewell to North Devon
• On Leaving London for Wales
• The Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy
• Evening. To Harriet
• To Ianthe
• Song from the Wandering Jew
• Fragment from the Wandering Jew
• To the Queen of My Heart
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher