The years since 1977, when the first edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Shelley's Poetry and Prose (SPP) appeared, have witnessed a renaissance in Shelley scholarship and criticism greater than any since the years 1870-92. A typical year of the past two decades has seen the publication of two or three significant critical or contextual books that treat aspects of Shelley's life, thought, or writings, and from two- to three-dozen substantive essays in collective volumes, periodicals, and recently on the internet. Many of these publications feature new perspectives from both the practitioners and the Opponents of such critical stances as psychoanalytic and deconstructive analysis,the New Historicism, globalism, ecology, and gender studies.

This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor.Shelley's Poetry and Prose again includes the most comprehensive collection of Shelley's writing available in a student paperback edition. Donald H. Reiman and Nell Fraistat, co-editors of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, have newly based the texts on the primary textual authorities, whether published or in manuscript.Each poetry and prose selection has been re-edited from the ground up; the headnotes detailing the textual history of Shelley's major works have been revised and expanded; and the many explanatory annotations have been revised and supplemented.

The years since 1977, when the First Edition appeared, have witnessed a renaissance in Shelley studies greater than any since 1870-92. The critical essays in the Second Edition draw from twenty-two scholar-critics to provide analysis of Shelley's manuscripts, as well as his historical context, thought, and art. Among those who offer their assessments are Harold Bloom, Alan Bewell,James Chandler, Stuart Curran, Kelvin Everest, Nancy Moore Goslee, Jerrold E. Hogle, William Keach, Michael O'Neill, Michael Scrivener, Earl R. Wasserman, Timothy Webb, and Susan J. Wolfson.

A Chronology, rigorously updated Selected Bibliography, and Index of Tides and First Lines are also included.

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Textual Introduction

Abbreviations

The Poems

  From The Esdaile Notebook

 To the Emperors of Russia and Austria

 Sonnet: To a balloon, laden with Knowledge

 Zeinab and Kathema

The Retrospect

  Queen Mab

 Alastor

  Stanzas.--April, 1814

  Mutability ("We are as clouds")

 To Wordsworth

  Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

  Mont Blanc

 From Laon and Cythna (later The Revolt of Islam)

 Dedication

 Canto IX, stanzas xx-xxviii

 To Constantia

  Ozymandias

  Lines written among the Euganean Hills

 Julian and Maddalo

  Stanzas written in Dejection--December 1818, Near Naples

 The Two Spirits--An Allegory

 The Cenci

  Prometheus Unbound

 The Sensitive-Plant

 Ode to Heaven

 Ode to the West Wind

 The Cloud

 To a Sky-Lark

 Ode to Liberty

 The Mask of Anarchy

  [Sonnet:] England in 1819

 Sonnet: To the Republic of Benevento

 Sonnet ("Lift not the painted veil")

 Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave!")

 Letter to Maria Gisborne

 Peter Bell the Third

 The Witch of Atlas

 Song of Apollo

 Song of Pan

 Epipsychidion

 Adonais

 Hellas

 Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon

 The Indian Girl's Song

 Song ("Rarely, rarely comest thou")

 The Flower That Smiles Today

 Memory

 To -- ("Music, when soft voices die")

 When Passion's Trance Is Overpast

 To Jane. The Invitation

 To Jane. The Recollection

  One Word Is Too Often Profaned

 The Serpent Is Shut Out from Paradise

 With a Guitar. To Jane.

 To Jane ("The keen stars were twinkling")

  Lines written in the Bay of Lerici

 The Triumph of Life

The Prose

  On Love

  On Life

  A Defence of Poetry

Criticism

 Shelley's Reputation Before 1960: A Sketch

FOUNDATIONS

 G. M. Matthews · A Volcano's Voice in Shelley

 Harold Bloom · Urbanity and Apocalypse

 Earl R. Wasserman · The Poetry of Skepticism

 Kenneth Neill Cameron · Philosophy, Religion,

    and Ethics

 Donald H. Reiman · Shelley as Agrarian Reactionary

  GENERAL STUDIES

 Stuart Curran · Shelley and the End(s) of Ideology

 Annette Wheeler Cafarelli · The Transgressive Double

    Standard: Shelleyan Utopianism and Feminist

    Social History

 Michael O'Neill · Shelley's Lyric Art

 Alan Bewell · Percy Bysshe Shelley and

    Revolutionary, Climatology

 Stephen C. Behrendt · Audiences and the Later Works

Neil Fraistat · Shelley Left and Right: The Rhetorics

   of the Early Textual Editions

 STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL WORKS

Michael Ferber · Alastor

Forest Pyle · "Frail Spells": Shelley and the Ironies

    of Exile

William Keach · [Mont Blanc]

Kelvin Everest · Shelley's Doubles: An Approach to

   Julian and Maddalo

Jerrold E. Hogle · Transference Perverted: The Cenei as

    Shelley's Great Expose

Timothy Webb · The Unascended Heaven: Negatives

    in Prometheus Unbound

James Chandler · History's Lyre: The "West Wind"

    and the Poet's Work

Susan J. Wolfson · Poetic Form and Political Reform:

    The Mask of Anarchy and "England in 1819"

Nancy Moore Goslee · Dispersoning Emily: Drafting

    as Plot in Epipsychidion

Michael Scrivener · [Adonais: Defending the Imagination]

Hugh Roberts · [Spectators Turned Actors: "The

    Triumph of Life"]

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index of Titles and First Lines