Shelley's Visions of Death

Andrew Lacey is a scholar of the literature and culture of the Romantic period. In the last decade, he has worked as Senior Research Associate, on the Davy Notebooks Project and the Davy Letters Project, in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. He assisted in the preparation of The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (4 volumes, 2020) and Volume Four of The Poems of Shelley in the Longman Annotated English Poets series (2014). He is Co-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and a former winner of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Keats-Shelley Prize.

• Chapter 1: ‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts.- Chapter 2: ‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813).- Chapter 3: ‘Who Lifteth the Veil of What is to Come?’: Alastor (1816).- Chapter 4: ‘And is This Death?’: ‘Seeing’ the Unseen, and Visionary Experimentation (1816-20).- Chapter 5: ‘Where the Eternal Are’: Adonais (1821).- Chapter 6: Shadows and Dreams: Conclusions.