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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 079 9 200 x 127 mm 438 pages |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Posthumous Poems 1824 After Shelley’s death in the Gulf of Spezia in July 1822 Mary Shelley (then aged 25) stayed on in Italy for a year before returning to London with her son Percy. Posthumous Poems, edited from manuscript, was the initial step in the work of publicizing Shelley’s poetry that was to occupy her for the next fifteen years. It contains the first publication of much of the work of the last period of his life, including Julian and Maddalo (the philosophical Shelley/Byron eclogue) and his last poem, The Triumph of Life. It also includes many short pieces (often expressions of his fraught emotional life) and translations of classical and modern literature. Readers could begin to gauge the true range and value of his work. Sir Timothy Shelley intervened, however; Posthumous Poems was suppressed. Of the 500 copies printed, 191 were destroyed. £42 $75
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