THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY - THOMAS HUTCHINSON - 1919

Hardcover. No DJ issued. Leather bound cover boards which are not in a good condition anymore. Except for an inscription on the FEP, the rest of the book is in a clean condition and still tightly bound. 912 pp with index of first lines. 

Percy Bysshe Shelley(4 August 1792- 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron. The novelist Mary Shelley (ne Godwin) was his second wife. Shelley's unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, combined with his strong disapproving voice, made him a marginalised figure during his life, important in a fairly small circle of admirers, and opened him to criticism as well as praise afterwards. Long after Shelley's death, Mark Twain took particular aim at Shelley indefence of Harriet Shelley, where he lambasted the 22-year-old Shelley for abandoning his pregnant 18-year-old wife and child to run off with the 16-year-old Mary Godwin. Shelley never lived to see the extent of his success and influence; although some of his works were published, they were often suppressed upon publication. He became an idol of the next three or four generations of poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets. He was admired by Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, William Butler Yeats, Upton Sinclair and Isadora Duncan. William Michael Rossetti (25 September 1829- 5 February 1919) was an English writer and critic. He was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti.

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