Poems

This selection gathers lyrics, odes, and extracts from the longer poems Shelley wrote in the 1810s and early 1820s. Short pieces address the west wind, a skylark, Mont Blanc, ruined statues, and political anger after Peterloo. Longer work includes the lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound, the pastoral lament Adonais, and passages from Queen Mab and The Triumph of Life. Recurring figures are Titans, spirits, and a poet-speaker who seeks liberty in nature and in revolt against priests and kings. The volume is a cross-section of song, vision, and protest, not a single narrative and not a life of the poet.

A photolithographic reprint. Full pale brown cloth decorated in gold, yellow-brown endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-jacket. Folio Press and J.M. Dent.