Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Textual Introduction

List of Abbreviations

The Poems

1. From The Esdaile Notebook
2. 1. To the Emperors of Russia and Austria . . .
   2. Sonnet: To a balloon, laden with Knowledge
   3. Zeinab and Kathema
   4. The Retrospect
3. Queen Mab Alastor
4. Stanzas—April, 1814
5. Mutability (“We are as clouds”)
6. To Wordsworth
7. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
8. Mont Blac
9. From Laon and Cythna (later The Revolt of Islam)
10. 1. Dedication
    2. Canto IX, stanzas 20-28
11. To Constantia
12. Ozymandias
13. Lines written among the Eugenean Hills
14. Julian and Maddalo
15. Stanzas written in Dejection—December 1818, Near Naples
16. The Two Spirts—An Allegory
17. The Cenci
18. Prometheus Unbound
19. The Sensitive-Plant
20. Ode to Heaven
21. Ode to the West Wind
22. The Cloud
23. To a Sky-Lark
24. Ode to Liberty
25. The Mask of Anarchy
26. [Sonnet:] England in 1819
27. Sonnet: To the Republic of Benevento
28. Sonnet (“Lift not the painted veil”)
29. Sonnet (“Ye hasten to the grave”)
30. Letter to Maria Gisborne
31. Peter Bell the Third
32. The Witch of Atlas
33. Song of Apollo
34. Song of Pan
35. Epipsychidion
36. Adonais
37. Hellas
38. Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
39. The Indian Girl’s Song
40. Song (“Rarely, rarely comest thou”)
41. The Flower That Smiles Today
42. When Passion’s Trace is Overpast
43. To---------(“Music, when soft voices die”)
44. Memory To Jane. The Invitation
45. To Jane. The Recollection
46. One Word Is Too Often Profaned
47. The Serpent Is Shut Out from Paradise
48. With a Guitar. To Jane
49. To Jane (“The keen stars were twinkling”)
50. Lines written in the Bay of Lerici
51. The Triumph of Life

The Prose

1. On Love
2. On Life
3. A Defence of Poetry

Criticism

1. Shelley’s Reputation Before 1960: A Sketch

Foundations

1. G. M. Matthews - A Volanco’s Voice in Shelley
2. Harold Bloom - Urbanity and Apocalypse
3. Earl R. Wasserman - The Poetry of Skepticism
4. Kenneth Neill Cameron - Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics
5. Donald H. Reiman - Shelley as Agrarian Reactionary

General Studies

1. Stuart Curran - Shelley and the End(s) of Ideology
2. Annette Wheeler Cafarelli - The Transgressive Double Standard: Shelleyan Utopianism and Feminist Social History
3. Michael O’Neill - Shelley’s Lyric Art
4. Alan Bewell - Percy Bysshe Shelley and Revolutionary Climatology
5. Stephen C. Behrendt - Audiences and the Later Works
6. Neil Fraistat - Shelley Left and Right: The Rhetorics of the Early Textual Editions

Studies of Individual Works

1. Michael Ferber - Alastor
2. Forest Pyle - “Frail Spells: Shelley and the Ironies of Exile
3. William Keach - [“Mont Blanc”]
4. Kelvin Everest - Shelley’s Doubles: An Approach to “Julian and Maddalo”
5. Jerrold E. Hogle - Transference Perverted: The Cenci as Shelley’s Great Exposé
6. Timothy Webb - The Unascended Heaven: Negatives in Prometheus Unbound
7. James Chandler - History’s Lyre: The “West Wind” and the Poet’s Work
8. Susan J. Wolfson - Poetic Form and Political Reform: The Mask of Anarchy and “England in 1819”
9. Nancy Moore Goslee - Dispersoning Emily: Drafting as Plot in Epipsychidion
10. Michael Scrivener - [Adonais: Defending the Imagination]
11. Hugh Roberts - [Spectators Turned Actors: “The Triumph of Life”]

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index of Titles and First Lines