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The poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley., Selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spender. Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith

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The poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spender. Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith

The Confessional Poet: Hymn to intellectual beauty -- Letter to Maria Gisborne -- Julian and Maddalo: a conversation -- Alastor, or the spirit of solitude -- To William Shelley ('Thy little footsteps on the sands') -- Lines ('The cold earth slept below') -- On Fanny Godwin -- 'Wake the serpent not' -- To Edward Williams -- On a faded violet -- Stanzas written in dejection, near Naples -- The sensitive plant -- Love -- Epipsychidion -- To Constantia, Singing -- The woodman and the nightingale -- Love's philosophy -- To ___ ('One word is too often profaned') -- The Indian serenade -- Lines ('When the lamp is shattered') -- Nature, imagination, joy and grief -- Ode to the West Wind -- To a skylark -- The cloud -- Mont Blanc -- Arethusa -- Song of Proserpine -- Lines written among the Euganean Hills -- Hymn of Apollo -- Hymn of Pan -- The Question -- Sonnet ('Lift not the painted veil') -- Song ('Rarely, rarely, comest thou') -- To night -- An exhortation -- The Aziola -- Evening: Ponte al Mare, Pisa -- The witch of atlas ('How, my dear Mary') -- The witch of atlas ('before those cruel twins') -- Adonais -- Politics -- To wordsworth -- Peter Bell the third -- Sonnet: England in 1819 -- Song to the men of England -- The mask of anarchy -- Similes for two political characters of 1819 -- The tower of Famine -- Ozymandias -- The invitation -- To Jane: The invitation -- To Jane: The recollection -- The pine forest of the cascine near Pisa -- With a guitar, to Jane -- To Jane ('The keen stars were twinkling') -- Lines written in the Bay of Lerici -- The triumph of life -- Mutability -- Mutability ('The flower that smiles to-day') -- Mutability ('We are as clouds') -- Time -- Autumn: A dirge -- Dirge for the year -- To the moon -- The waning moon -- Variation of the song of the moon -- A lament -- Rain -- Lines ('That time is dead for ever') -- Life rounded with sleep -- To the mind of man -- Translations -- Homer's hymn to the sun -- Elegy on the Death of Adonis (from the Greek of Bion)