The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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viii, 705, [3] pp. 8vo. No copyright date, late 19th century, circa 1896. A collection of poetry by the major figure in the English Romantic period, close friend of fellow poet Lor d Byron, and husband to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Edited with an introduction by Edward Dowden, and including the preface by Mary Shelley from the 1830 first collected edition, the postscript from the 1839 second edition, and the preface by Mary Shelley to the volume of posthumous poems published in 1824. Notes, a list of Shelley's principal writings, the order of poems, and indices to the poems and their first lines follow text. Show more