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TEXT.. The best critical edition of Shelley's complete works is that by H. B. Forman in eight volumes (four of poetry and four of prose), London, 1880. Mr. Forman has also published a popular edition of the poetical works, without notes, in Bell's Aldine Series, five volumes. A useful and excellent critical edition of the poetical works is that of Prof. G. E. Woodberry in four volumes, Boston and New York, 1892. Mr. W. M. Rossetti's edition, London, 1881, contains in three volumes a revised text, notes, and memoir. The most convenient edition of the complete poetical works for the ordinary reader is that by Professor Dowden in one volume.

The chief sources for the text are (1) the various existing MSS. in the poet's handwriting or in that of his wife; the bulk of these are among the family papers at Boscombe Manor, but there is also a valuable collection at Harvard; (2) the various volumes printed in Shelley's lifetime (several of these have been reprinted in the Shelley Society's Publications), and for some of the shorter poems, the pages of the Examiner, Keepsake, and other periodicals to which the poet occasionally contributed; (3) Mrs. Shelley's editions of her husband's works, viz., Posthumous Poems, 1824, and her editions of the collected poetical works, two of which appeared in 1839, and a third in 1841. Relics of Shelley, edited by Dr. Garnett, London, 1862, affords poetical matter which had not hitherto been printed.

For an account of these various earlier publications of Shelley's works, The Shelley Library, an Essay in Bibliography, by H. B. Forman (Shelley Society's Publications) should be consulted.

BIOGRAPHY. - The most comprehensive and authoritative life of Shelley is that by Professor Dowden in two volumes, London, 1886. Among the shorter biographies may be mentioned those by W. M. Rossetti (Shelley Society's Publications), by J. A. Symonds (English Men of Letters Series), and by Wm. Sharp (Great Writers Series). J. Cordy Jeaffreson's The Real Shelley, in two volumes, presents the view of the Advocatus Diaboli; it is one-sided and digressive, but acute and, as a corrective, sometimes useful.

Among the more important original sources generally accessible, besides Shelley's own letters, etc., are the notes in Mrs. Shelley's editions, the life by Shelley's friend Hogg (which does not cover his later years), an account of the last months of the poet's life by Trelawny in his Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author (these accounts by Hogg and Trelawny based on personal knowledge are specially vivid and interesting), and the Memorials of Shelley in Peacock's collected works.

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Among the numerous critical essays may be mentioned those by Stopford A. Brooke (being his introduction to his Poems of Shelley), Walter Bagehot (Literary Studies), R. H. Hutton (Literary Essays), W. H. Myers (Ward's English Poets), Professor Baynes (Edinburgh Review, Vol. CXXXIII), Leslie Stephen (Hours in a Library):

The Shelley Society's Publications include A Shelley Concordance by F. S. Ellis, a Shelley Primer by H. S. Salt, an essay on the Prometheus by W. M. Rossetti, and various other essays, notes, etc., on matters pertaining to Shelley. A volume of selections from his letters edited by Dr. Garnett is in the Parchment Library; from his essays and letters, in the Camelot Classics. A Study of Shelley by J. Todhunter gives an extended examination of his works. Annotated editions of the Prometheus by Miss Vida D. Scudder; of the Adonais by W. M. Rossetti (Clarendon Press), and by Professor Hales (Longer English Poems); of the Alastor, with translation into French prose, by Al. Beljame (Hachette, Paris); of the Essay on Poetry by Professor Cook. For sources and parallel passages, Dr. Richard

Ackermann's Quellen, Vorbilder, Stoffe zu Shelley's Poetischen Werken (viz., Alastor, Epipsychidion, Adonais, Hellas), Erlangen and Leipzig, 1890, and the same author's article on the Prometheus in Englische Studien, Band XVI, may be consulted. A bibliography is appended to Shelley in the Great Writers Series.