Book Description
This volume contains one of the fullest, and certainly the most accurately edited, collections of Shelley's poetry and prose available. This Second Edition is based on the authoritative texts established by Reiman and Fraistat for their scholarly edition, The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Each poetry and prose selection has been reedited from the ground up. Headnotes detailing the textual history of Shelley's major works have been revised and expanded, and many new and revised footnotes are included. The years since 1977—when the First Edition appeared—have witnessed a renaissance in Shelley studies greater than any since 1870-92. All 23 critical selections are new, and include analysis of Shelley's manuscripts and other textual sources for his writing as well as interpretations. A Chronology, rigorously updated Selected Bibliography, and Index of Titles and First Lines are also included. About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.


About the Author
Donald H. Reiman, Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is co-editor of Shelley and His Circle at the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library. He is a director and officer of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, founder of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, a founding director of the Society for Textual Scholarship and the Byron Society of America, and a founder of the Romantic Circles website. He has written, edited, or co-edited some 200 volumes of literary and textual criticism. Neil Fraistat is Professor of English at the University of Maryland and a founder and General Editor of the Romantic Circles website. He is co-editor of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print, and of Helen Maria Williams' Letters Written in France. He is recipient of the Society for Textual Scholarship's Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Scholar Award.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This Second Edition of a perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series represents an extensive revision of its predecessor. Shelley's Poetry and Prose again includes the most comprehensive collection of Shelley's writing available in a student paperback edition. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, co-editors of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, have newly based the texts on the primary textual authorities, whether published or in manuscript. Each poetry and prose selection has been re-edited from the ground up; the headnotes detailing the textual history of Shelley's major works have been revised and expanded; and the many explanatory annotations have been revised and supplemented. The years since 1977, when the First Edition appeared, have witnessed a renaissance in Shelley studies greater than any since 1870-92. The critical essays in the Second Edition draw from twenty-two scholar-critics to provide analysis of Shelley's manuscripts, as well as his historical context, thought, and art. Among those who offer their assessments are Harold Bloom, Alan Bewell, James Chandler, Stuart Curran, Kelvin Everest, Nancy Moore Goslee, Jerrold E. Hogle, William Keach, Michael O'Neill, Michael Scrivener, Earl R. Wasserman, Timothy Webb, and Susan J. Wolfson. A Chronology, rigorously updated Selected Bibliography, and Index of Titles and First Lines are also included.

FROM THE CRITICS

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