Prometheus Unbound
A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, with Other Poems

A one-volume collection of five editions of Shelley's later and posthumously published verse, which originally appeared separately between 1819 and 1824.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author)

9781108060493, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 May 2013

946 pages
21.6 x 14 x 5.7 cm, 1.34 kg

The later works of the radical and visionary Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) include some of his boldest productions, such as the large-scale verse dramas Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci, the miniatures 'Ode to a Skylark' and 'Ode to the West Wind', and the sonnet 'Ozymandias'. All have taken their place among the classics of English literature. This one-volume collection contains four editions which were originally published during the poet's lifetime and which feature his prefaces. These are Prometheus Unbound with Other Poems (1820); Hellas: A Lyrical Drama (1822), which also includes 'Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon'; The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts (second edition, 1821); and Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue with Other Poems (1819). The fifth and final component is Posthumous Poems (1824), with a preface by Mary Shelley, the poet's second wife.

Preface
Prometheus Unbound
Miscellaneous poems
Hellas: A Lyrical Drama
The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue
Lines written among the Euganean hills
Hymn to intellectual beauty
Ozymandias
Posthumous poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alastor
Translations.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]