Selected Poetry

During his short
and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems,
three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which
he propounded his philosophical views and radical political ideas. These,
together with his highly unconventional itinerant life and his literary
connections, make him one of the most important and intriguing figures in
British Romanticism.

This volume provides a generous selection of his poetry, from the sonnet
‘Ozymandias’ to famous lyrics such as ‘Ode to the West Wind’ and ‘Lines
Written among the Euganean Hills’, to the longer poems of his maturity,
Adonais and Epipsychidion, all thoroughly annotated and presented in
chronological order.