The Major Works

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Book Overview

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured.

This freshly edited collection--the fullest one-volume selection in English--includes all but one of the longer poems, from Queen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199538972
• ISBN13: 9780199538973
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic collecion for Shelley enthusiasts

This is a comprehensive collection of Shelley's works including plays, poems and other works. Recommend for the Shelley enthusiast, casual Shelley fan and anyone majoring in English (BA, MA, PhD...) very useful resource for myself, classmates and my professors (I am an English MA student myself.) Includes both well known works (Promethius Unbound, Ozymandias etc etc..) as well as some perhaps lesser known works (Mask of Anarchy...) Very nice collection for any personal library, especially for the price.

Haha! I own this and you don't yet!

OK, maybe that was a bit mean-spirited, but it is just to invoke you into buying this book. It is fantastic. Percy Shelley is a genius. Very tongue in cheek, still wwwaaaaayyyyy romantic-y, quite deacadant. Buy it. You have to.