Posthumous Poems 1824New York, 1991 - 415 páginas After Shelley's death in the Gulf of Spezia in July 1822 Mary Shelley (then aged 25) stayed on in Italy for a year before returning to London with her son Percy. Posthumous poems, edited from manuscript, was the initial step in the work of publicizing Shelley's poetry that was to occupy her for the next fifteen years. It contains the first publication of much of the work of the last period of his life, including Julian and Maddalo (the philosophical Shelley/Byron eclogue) and his last poem, The triumph of life. It also includes many short pieces (often expressions of his fraught emotional life) and translations of classical and modern literature. In publishing his own poetry Shelley had tended to print major works, either on their own, or supported by lesser poems; Posthumous poems takes a more comprehensive view. Readers could begin to gauge the true range and value of his work. Sir Timothy Shelley intervened, however; Posthumous poems was suppressed. Of the 500 copies printed, 191 were destroyed. |
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... wide dominions Sweeps in his dream - drawn chariot , far and fast , More fleet than storms - the wide world shrinks below , When winter and despondency are past . ' Twas at this season that Prince Athanase Past the 254 PRINCE ATHANASE ,
... wide dominions Sweeps in his dream - drawn chariot , far and fast , More fleet than storms - the wide world shrinks below , When winter and despondency are past . ' Twas at this season that Prince Athanase Past the 254 PRINCE ATHANASE ,
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... wide pathless desart of dim sleep , That beautiful shape ! does the dark gate of death Conduct to thy mysterious paradise , O Sleep ? Does the bright arch of rainbow clouds , And pendent mountains seen in the calm lake , Lead only to a ...
... wide pathless desart of dim sleep , That beautiful shape ! does the dark gate of death Conduct to thy mysterious paradise , O Sleep ? Does the bright arch of rainbow clouds , And pendent mountains seen in the calm lake , Lead only to a ...
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... wide Greece our enterprise has kept From Phrygian contumely ; and in which You have a common care , for you inhabit The skirts of Grecian land , under the roots Of Etna and its crags , spotted with fire . Turn then to converse under ...
... wide Greece our enterprise has kept From Phrygian contumely ; and in which You have a common care , for you inhabit The skirts of Grecian land , under the roots Of Etna and its crags , spotted with fire . Turn then to converse under ...
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