Poems of Shelley: Volume Five

Carlene Adamson was formerly Assistant Professor of English at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.Will Bowers is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at Queen Mary University of London, UK.Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor Emeritus at the University of Liverpool, UK.Mathelinda Nabugodi is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at University College London, UK.Michael Rossington is Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK.

• Note by the General EditorsNote on IllustrationsPreface to Volume FiveAcknowledgementsChronological Table of Shelley’s Life and PublicationsAbbreviationsTHE POEMS409 ‘In the great morning of the world’410 ‘As the sunrise to the night’ [Fragment: To Italy]411 Hellas411 Appendix Lines connected with Hellas412 The Indian Girl’s Song [Lines to an Indian Air]413 ‘Which like a crane, its distant home pursuing’414 ‘An archer stood upon the Tower of Babel’415 Autumn: a Dirge416 ‘Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years’ [Time]417 ‘The flower that smiles today’ [Mutability]418 ‘A fresh fair child stood by my side’ [Love, Hope, Desire, and Fear] (Translation of Brunetto Latini, Il Tesoretto xxi 82–156)418 Appendix Brunetto Latini, Il Tesoretto xxi 82–156419 ‘A capering, squalid, squalling one’420 Epitaph [On Keats]421 The Zucca422 ‘Rough wind that moanest loud’ [A Dirge]423 ‘Alas, if I could feign’424 ‘There was a star when Heaven was young’425 ‘Though thou scatterest their ashes’426 Charles the First426 Appendix Lines connected with Charles the First427 ‘A widowed bird sate mourning for her love’ [A Song]428 ‘Art thou pale for weariness’ [To the Moon]429 Lines to — [Sonnet to Byron]Appendix A: The Order of the Poems in 1822Appendix B: ‘[ ? ] / As when within a chasm of [?mighty] seas’Appendix C: ‘O thou whose cold hand tears the veils from error’ (Translation of Petrarch, Africa vi 901–2)Index of TitlesIndex of First Lines

‘[T]he editors have produced a formidable resource of which earlier readers, including the poems’ first audiences, could barely have dreamt. In doing so they have fulfilled the foundational, democratizing aim of the Longman series – as envisaged by figures such as Bateson and Matthews – of making available to the reader the array of influences and contexts that inform a poetic corpus such as Shelley’s. If for some readers the pleasures of the novelty of Shelley have ceased, then they are sure to be rekindled by the scrupulous exactness and breadth of explanation to be found in these volumes.’ - Ross Wilson, The TLS, December 13th 2024