The Esdaile Notebook: A Facsimile of the Holograph Copybook in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library

by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman

First edition. 57 poems from Shelley's manuscript notebook, of which only 14 were previously printed. Edited by Kenneth Neill Cameron, with 9 illustrations and a map. Bookplate of John DePol on front pastedown. ii , xxi, 377, 3 pages. cloth , dust jacket.. 8vo..

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, British romantic poet, include "To a Skylark" in 1820; Prometheus Unbound , the lyric drama; and "Adonais," an elegy of 1821 to John Keats.

The Cenci , work of art or literature of Percy Bysshe Shelley of 1819, depicts Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman.

People widely consider Percy Bysshe Shelley among the finest majors of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias , Ode to the West Wind , and The Masque of Anarchy . His major long visionary Alastor , The Revolt of Islam , and the unfinished The Triumph of Life .

Unconventional life and uncompromising idealism of Percy Bysshe Shelley combined with his strong skeptical voice to make an authoritative and much denigrated figure during his life. He became the idol of the next two or three generations, the major Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as William Butler Yeats and in other languages, such as Jibanananda Das and Subramanya Bharathy . Karl Marx, Henry Stephens Salt, and [authorm:Bertrand Russell] also admired him. Famous for his association with his contemporaries Lord Byron, he also married Mary Shelley, novelist.

Reviews

[percy]

poems are good but not shelley’s best.
this edition however is incredible; there’s a map of where shelley went during this time, and incredibly detailed textual notes and photos of manuscripts