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The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Modern Library) Kindle Edition

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author), Mary Shelley (Preface) Format: Kindle Edition
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Percy Bysshe Shelley endures today as the great Promethean bard of the High Romantic period who is best remembered for extolling the sublime and affirming the possibility of transcendence.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000RH0DUI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Modern Library (February 27, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 27, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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PKW68
5.0 out of 5 stars Very pleased.
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016
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5.0 out of 5 stars best of 1820.
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2016
A selection of unusual ideas called The Unknown Poe has a few pages on Shelley that praises his poem The Sensitive Plant for having too many ideas the minds of piffle people would not comprehend. Poe was the Imp of the Perverse appreciated by French poets and Andre Breton in The Unknown Poet. I read a lot of the Table of Contents of The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley before I saw The Sensitive Plant as the first poem of 1820. It describes a year of life in a garden tended by a woman who died before winter came.

Poe liked the abandon with which Percy wrote for his own self in great inspiration. On the pages before The Sensitive Plant in this book there is a discarded stanza of The Mask of Anarchy replaced by two other stanzas and a description of the impact of events on Shelley in a note by Mary Shelley, who lived many years longer than Shelley and revised the first and second editions of this book. Following the poem The Mask of Anarchy, the poem Peter Bell the Third describes the life of Peter Bell, a character of dulness created by Wordsworth after the death of Peter Bell. Part the Third of Peter Bell the Third is Hell. Part the Sixth is Damnation and Part the Seventh Double Damnation. A note by Mary Shelley attributes insults in this poem to Percy's genuine reaction to the idea of legitimate murder. As The Mask of Anarchy has grass that runs with blood, Peter Bell the Third mentions drenched with blood.

The translation of a drama Swellfoot from Greek tragedy is also in this book, with a chorus of swine. It does not take much imagination to determine who might be offended by things written in English on this theme.

Language has the most overtones for those who approach it as clues in a mystery that dead people never solved. In the Bible, Job was based upon the ideas that made the land of Ur dominate its own people, but the speech in Job by Elihu, youngest confronting swine of Job handing out advice like American troops in Vietnam in favor of war winding down, uses Hebrew to say things about the rich dominating the poor that Shelley echoes in poems that seem subversive to authority trying to triumph over anarchy by using force against people who assert themselves.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2022
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Laon
1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2001
This disgraceful edition calls itself the "Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley". It is nothing of the kind.
Much of Shelley's work was suppressed by 19th century editors, poems such as "A Ballad" for example. The poem, beginning "Young Parson Richards stood at his gate", was one of the poems Shelley intended for his projected "Popular Songs" volume, political poems in simple language to be sold amongst workers and their families in England. "A ballad" concerns religious hypocrisy, prostitution and starvation.
Standard editions of Shelley still suppress this poem, 218 years after it was written.
Shelley's first editor, Mary Shelley had no choice about censoring Shelley's more radical poems: she was dependent on Shelley's father Sir Timothy Shelley, for 150 pounds a year that was the different between survival and starvation for herself and her son. And Sir Timothy wanted his dead son, that shameful atheist, democrat and philanthropist, forgotten. Mary Shelley was under financial threat if she preserved her late husband's memory, and in that context her work as editor was brave and loyal.
Let's not forget that people went to jail, during the early and mid-19th century, for publishing Shelley's works: Chartist and other working class and radical publishers.
But by the cusp of the 20th century, Shelley's Victorian editors had no such excuses: and they were neither brave nor loyal. They _could_ have produced a genuinely complete works, but they chose not to. They wanted to give the world a harmless Shelley, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel", as Matthew Arnold called him, and they were prepared to suppress and distort Shelley's works to help preserve that image.
But - amazingly - here we are in the 21st century, and this edition appears. And not only does it perpetuate the various omissions of Shelley's 19th century editors/suppressors (why is _Laon and Cythna_ still appearing in its bowdlerised form as _The Revolt of Islam_?), but THIS EDITION ACTUALLY DELETES CONTROVERSIAL SHELLEY MATERIAL THAT EVEN THE VICTORIANS HAD THE COURAGE TO PRINT.
So if you buy this edition, you'll find many Shelley poems missing, as you will if you buy the Oxford edition of Shelley's Poetical Works. But in this edition you will also find that the notes to _Queen Mab_ have disappeared. Why? The notes to _Queen Mab_ are as integral a part of the poem as Elliot's Notes to _The Wasteland_. The reason is not space, or that the notes are prose. If prose was the problem, why not remove the long prefaces to several of the longer works, or the notes to _Hellas_, or Mrs Shelley's notes?
The reason, clearly, is that Shelley's opinions, as expressed in the notes ot _Queen Mab_ are still controversial. The atheism and the defence of religious freedom including freedom from religion, his hatred of his government's military adventures, his views on marriage, on prostitution, his proto-socialism, are still capable of offending the sort of committee that gets books pulled from libraries, especially school libraries.
And sadly, it seems that there are still publishers who believe that people should be protected from the knowledge that Shelley was a radical, a controversialist on the side of the weak, the poor and powerless, an activist some of whose messages would see him in trouble, still, with those in power today.
Not everyone who buys Shelley _wants_ Shelley the controversialist, of course. He is perhaps the supreme English lyric poet, a poet of nature and of light, idealism and love. But even if you don't particularly want to read the notes to _Queen Mab_, and the other material missing from this volume, you may feel that censorship of a major English poet, whose work and thought should be part of all of our heritage, should not be rewarded or encouraged. Don't buy this edition. There is a complete edition coming, in four volumes, edited by Neil Fraistat. Unfortunately, at US$57 a volume, that will be out of many people's price ranges. However it can be hoped that Fraistat's edition will shame the several publishers of one-volume "Complete Poems" into ending the current censorship and suppression.
But this edition is a huge and disgraceful step _backwards_ in Shelley publishing: actually containing less than the already-inadequate Oxford Complete Poetry. In the meantime, I can only recommend that Shelley lovers buy the Oxford edition, if they can't afford the Fraistat.
No cheers on this one,
Laon (no relation)
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Jeff Holt
5.0 out of 5 stars Best edition I have found.
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2022
"The Complete Poems of Percy Bysse Shelley" is the most comprehensive collection of Shelley's poems that I have found. For example, there are 100 pages of Shelley's juvenalia (Queen Mab is included in this). And all of Shelley's major/other poems are well presented in a handsome 905 pages. A big boon for me, admittedly, is that the majority of the poems are easily readable, as opposed to being in two columns with tiny text. Basically, this is the best edition of Shelley's poems that I have found for the price.
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