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Shelley's Poetry and Prose

A Norton Critical Edition
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Shelley's Poetry and Prose offers a meticulously reedited selection of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works, featuring rearranged poems based on recent redating and reconsiderations. This edition includes updated headnotes and numerous revised footnotes, reflecting the significant renaissance in Shelley studies since the late 19th century. It also presents twenty-three new critical essays by leading scholars, alongside a chronology, an updated bibliography, and an index of titles and first lines.
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Shelley's Poetry and Prose

This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts chosen by the editors from their scholarly edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Each selection has been thoroughly reedited, and the order of the poems has been rearranged in light of redating or other reconsiderations. All headnotes are new or updated, and many footnotes have been added, replaced, or revised.

Shelley's Poetry and Prose reflects the recent renaissance in Shelley studies, the greatest renaissance since 1870-92. All twenty-three essays are new to the Second Edition; among them are the work of Harold Bloom, Stuart Curran, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli, Michael Ferber, James Chandler, and Susan J. Wolfson.

A Chronology, an updated Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines are included.

Series: Norton Critical Editions

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393977523

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 January 2002

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Second Edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Neil Fraistat
  • Edited by Donald H. Reiman
  • Edited by Donald H. Reiman
  • Edited by Donald H. Reiman

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 614g

Pages: 816

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

Neil Fraistat is Professor of English at the University of Maryland and a founder and General Editor of the Romantic Circles website. He is co-editor of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, of Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print, and of Helen Maria Williams' Letters Written in France. He is recipient of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Scholar Award. Donald H. Reiman, Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is co-editor of Shelley and His Circle at the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library. He is a director and officer of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, founder of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, a founding director of the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Byron Society of America, and a founder of the Romantic Circles website. He has written, edited, or co-edited some 200 volumes of literary and textual criticism.

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