Description
The first American edition of Shelley's complete poetry since 1892-with more poems, fragments, and collations than any previous collective edition
About the Author
Donald H. Reiman is the co-editor of Shelley and his Circle, a catalogue edition of relevant manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection at the New York Public Library, and an adjunct professor of English at the University of Delaware. Neil Fraistat is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is a founder and general editor of the "Romantic Circles" website, published by the University of Maryland.
Reviews
In gathering together all his earliest pieces, including some that have been unavailable in standard editions of the collected poetry, Donald Reiman and Neil Fraistat's meticulously edited volume brings out the aims Shelley had for his verse, and the effects he sought, which remained surprisingly uniform. -- Laura Quinney London Review of Books Will become an indispensable reference work for all who study Shelley... The first volume... auspiciously inaugurates Shelley studies for a new millennium. -- Morton D. Paley Studies in Romanticism If ever an edition deserved the chimerical epithet 'definitive' this is it. A more comprehensive collation of relevant materials, or a more sensitive, sensible, and reader-friendly presentation of evidence, is inconceivable. All Shelleyans owe Reiman and Fraistat a debt of gratitude. The edition this volume inaugurates will be an essential acquisition for academic libraries and should become the standard scholarly reference for all citations of Shelley's poems. The Wordsworth Circle The Johns Hopkins University Press has come out with the first volume of what will almost certainly be the standard in Shelley scholarship, The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, beautifully edited by Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat. What is so special about this edition, as we can see in this volume of Shelley's early writing, is that it presents the poems in their historical context, which turns out to mean so much more than the phrase usually does. We see not only the traditional drafts and revisions but also thorough discussions of publication histories, origins, influences, and receptions by Shelley's contemporaries. It is more than a reader hopes for in editorial scholarship. -- Susan Morgan Studies in English Literature The editors' impressive combined knowledge, theoretical understanding, and practical skills add up to a brilliant first installment of what will undoubtedly be a monumental edition-the Shelley edition for our time. -- Steven E. Jones Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America This edition will undoubtedly be indispensable for the serious study of Shelley's poetry. -- P.M.S. Dawson Review of English Studies These youthful poems prove that Shelley's enthusiasm for political solutions to moral problems was neither intellectual fakery nor aristocratic affection. -- J.T. Barbarese Sewanee Review
Awards
Winner of Richard J. Finneran Award 2013 (United States) and CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9780801861192
Author Donald H. Reiman
Format Hardback
Page Count 544
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 907g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 39mm