Poems of Shelley: Volume Four

The EditorsMichael Rossington is Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University, UK.Jack Donovan was formerly Reader in English at the University of York, UK.Kelvin Everest is A. C. Bradley Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK.The General EditorsPaul Hammond, FBA, is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. David Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.The Founding General EditorF. W. Bateson, who founded the series and acted as General Editor for its first generation of titles, was a distinguished critic and scholar. He was lecturer in English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the editor of the original Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and founding editor of the journal Essays in Criticism.

• Note on Illustrations Preface to Volume Four Acknowledgements Publisher’s Acknowledgements Chronological Table of Shelley’s Life and Publications Abbreviations THE POEMS359 ‘There is a Spirit, whose inconstant home’ 360 ‘I am as a Spirit who has dwelt’360 Appendix Fragments connected with ‘I am as a Spirit who has dwelt’ 361 ‘Methought I was a billow in the crowd’ 362 ‘I went into the deserts of dim sleep’ 363 ‘Into the plain, out of the mountains hoar’364 ‘The path was broad’ 365 ‘Such hope as is the sick despair of good’ 366 Italian translation of Prometheus Unbound II v 48–110, IV 1–55 and 57–82 367 Italian translation of Laon and Cythna ll. 667–98 368 ‘Thy beauty hangs around thee like’ 369 The Fugitives 369 Appendix Unused lines for The Fugitives 370 The Tower of Famine 371 ‘Faint with love, the lady of the South’ 372 ‘I faint, I perish with my love—I grow’ 373 ‘Thy gentle face, [ ? ] dear’ 374 ‘Il tuo viso, o [?vaga] [ ? ]’ 375 ‘Che Emilia, ch’era più bella [a vedere]’ 376 ‘E da la [?buona] che forse [?sfrenata]’ 377 The Woodman and the Nightingale 378 Fiordispina 378 Appendix Fragments connected with Fiordispina 379 ‘Rose leaves, when the rose is dead’ 380 ‘[?When] May is painting with her colours gay’ 381 Dirge for the Year 382 Aeschylus Fragment 383 ‘I would not be, that which another is’ 384 ‘Ye gentle visitations of calm thought’ 385 ‘He has made / The wilderness a city of pavilions’ 386 ‘Come da una avita quercia’ 387 Buona Notte 387 Appendix Medwin’s translation of Buona Notte 388 Ode alla Libertà 389 ‘These are two friends whose lives were undivided’390 ‘Ye who [ ] the third Heaven move’ 391 Epipsychidion 391 Appendix Fragments connected with Epipsychidion 392 ‘O time, O night, O day’ 393 To Emilia Viviani 394 ‘If shadows [ ? ] [?when] the [ ? ] lie’ 395 ‘Dal spiro della tua mente, [è] istinta’ 395 Appendix ‘Cosi la Poesia, incarnata diva’ 396 ‘Unrisen splendour of the brightest sun’ 397 ‘The flowers have spread’ 398 Ginevra 399 A Lament (‘O World, O Life, O Time’) 400 ‘When passion’s trance is overpast’ 401 Epithalamium 402 ‘From the wrecks of the gloomy past’ 403 Adonais 403 Appendix Unused stanzas for Adonais 404 ‘It is a savage mountain slope’ 405 The Aziola 406 The Boat on the Serchio 407 Written on hearing the news of the death of Napoleon 408 ‘A snake came to pay the mastiff a visit’ Appendix A The Order of the Poems in 1822 Appendix B Orpheus Index of Titles Index of First Lines

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