Nora Crook is professor emerita of English literature at Anglia Ruskin University. Neil Fraistat is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and the president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsEditorial OverviewAbbreviationsTEXTSFrom the Triumph MS and Posthumous Poems (Opening Section)The Triumph of Life Lyric Fragments from the Triumph MS"An Unfinished Drama"From Posthumous Poems: Miscellaneous Poems"On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci" "The Fugitives""The sun is set, the swallows are asleep"Lyrics for Mary W. Shelley's Proserpine and Midas"Arethusa""Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth""Song of Apollo""Song of Pan"Autumn A Dirge"Our boat is asleep in Serchio's stream"The ZuccaThe good die first— The Two Spirits. An Allegory"Tomorrow""They die—the dead return not""O World, O Life, O Time""Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me""I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden—""My lost William, thou in whom""A Portal as of shadowy adamant""The flower that smiles today"From the Arabic—imitation"One word is too often profaned""Music""Death is here, and death is there""When passion's trance is overpast""Listen, listen, Mary mine—""O Mary dear, that you were here""Wilt thou forget the happy hours""The fiery mountains answer each other" "Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed""There was a little lawny islet""Rose leaves, when the rose is dead""Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years""Tell me, Star, whose wings of light""Rough wind that moanest loud""Far, far away, O ye"Jan. 1. 1821From Posthumous Poems: Fragments"Ginevra"The Historical Tragedy of Charles the First"Mazenghi""The Woodman and the Nightingale""Art thou pale for weariness""I loved—alas, our life is love""And like a dying lady lean and pale""These are two friends whose lives were undivided"COMMENTARIESFrom the Triumph MS and Posthumous Poems (Opening Section) The Triumph of Life Lyric Fragments from the Triumph MS"An Unfinished Drama"From Posthumous Poems: Miscellaneous Poems "On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci" "The Fugitives" "The sun is set, the swallows are asleep" Lyrics for Mary W. Shelley's Proserpine and MidasAutumn A Dirge (and Supplements)"Our boat is asleep in Serchio's stream"The ZuccaThe good die first— The Two Spirits. An Allegory"Tomorrow""They die—the dead return not""O World, O Life, O Time""Madonna, wherefore hast thou sent to me""I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden—""My lost William, thou in whom""A Portal as of shadowy adamant""The flower that smiles today"From the Arabic—imitation "One word is too often profaned""Music""Death is here, and death is there""When passion's trance is overpast""Listen, listen, Mary mine""O Mary dear, that you were here""Wilt thou forget the happy hours""The fiery mountains answer each other""Mine eyes were dim with tears unshed""There was a little lawny islet""Rose leaves, when the rose is dead""Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years""Tell me, Star, whose wings of light""Rough wind that moanest loud""Far, far away, O ye"Jan. 1. 1821From Posthumous Poems: Fragments"Ginevra"The Historical Tragedy of Charles the First "Mazenghi""The Woodman and the Nightingale""Art thou pale for weariness""I loved—alas, our life is love""And like a dying lady lean and pale""These are two friends whose lives were undivided"HISTORICAL COLLATIONSFrom the Triumph MS and Posthumous Poems (Opening Section)From Posthumous Poems: Miscellaneous PoemsFrom Posthumous Poems: FragmentsAPPENDIXESA. Contents of Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824), Together with a List of Manuscript Sources of Items in This VolumeB. Mary W. Shelley's Preface to Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824)C. Source for "Ginevra": Marco Lastri, L'osservatore fiorentinoD. Charles the First: Ancillary MaterialI. PBS's Reading NotesII. Sketch of Acts I and II III. Jottings (Preliminary) ContributorsIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines

Rigorously, enthusiastically, and innovatively edited, this volume has brought excitement and zest to my Shelley-reading life.—Australian Book Review