Selected Poems and Prose
Descriere
A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language. His major works include the long visionary poems 'Prometheus Unbound' and 'Adonais', an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include 'To a Skylark', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Ode to the West Wind'. This important new edition collects his best poetry and prose, revealing how his writings weave together the political, personal, visionary and idealistic.
This Penguin Classics edition includes a fascinating introduction, notes and other materials by leading Shelley scholars, Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.
Despre autor
Percy Bysshe Shelley a fost unul dintre cei mai importanți poeți ai romantismului englez, criticii considerându-l unul dintre cei mai de seamă lirici ai literaturii de limbă engleză. Faima i-au adus-o poemele clasice Oyzmandias, Odă vântului de apus, Odă unei ciocârlii și Mascarada anarhiei, care sunt printre cele mai populare și cele mai lăudate poeme de limbă engleză.
